Planning is the most important task of a manager in shaping the environment i.e. the organization so that the performance of individuals who work jointly in teams could be efficient

Director
Dušan Kuzmanović is the Acting Director of the Public Policy Secretariat.
Deputy director
Ninoslav Kekić graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Novi Sad in 2006, and started his career in 2007.
Assistant directors
Planning bridges the gap between where we are now and where we want to go.

Planning is the most important task of a manager in shaping the environment i.e. the organization so that the performance of individuals who work jointly in teams could be efficient.

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DIRECTOR

Dušan Kuzmanović

He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and obtained a Master's degree from the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, in the Electronic Business study program. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the same faculty in the Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence doctoral program.

Prior to his appointment as Acting Director, he served as Assistant Director and Head of the Sector for Ensuring Quality of Regulations and Services.

In this role, he coordinated activities related to Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), management of the Register of Administrative Procedures, public service improvement, regulatory reform, and public-private dialogue.

He began his professional career in the legal profession, serving as a secretary of a public institution and as a trainee attorney. He gained extensive experience at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, where he held consultancy, operational, and management positions in the areas of judiciary digitalization, development of judicial information systems and electronic services, ICT project management, and the alignment of technological solutions with the legal framework. He served as Head of the Department for ICT Project Implementation and Head of the Group for ICT Systems in Criminal and Misdemeanor Matters. In addition, he has also gained professional experience in the private ICT sector.

He has participated in numerous working groups responsible for drafting legislation and public policy documents in the fields of eGovernment, information security, personal data protection, artificial intelligence, and the judiciary digitalization.

He has been selected as a member of the Council of Europe framework of consultants, providing expert support in the field of judiciary digitalization. He has been a member of the European Cyber justice Network since its establishment and previously served as Deputy National Representative in the CEPEJ Working Group on Cyber justice and Artificial Intelligence.

Dušan Kuzmanović is the author of several scientific and professional publications, as well as papers presented at national and international conferences, covering topics related to the judiciary digitalization and public administration, eGovernment, and the application of artificial intelligence in law.

He was appointed Acting Director by the Decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia No. 24 119-7214/2026 of  July 16th 2026.

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DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Ninoslav Kekić

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Novi Sad in 2006, and began his career in 2007 in educational institutions of the Republic of Serbia and projects of international organizations, after which he continued working in state administration bodies. He has more than 15 years of experience in the field of regulatory reform, public administration reform, improvement of the business environment and modernization of public administration services.

He was appointed to the position of deputy director by Government Decision 24 Number: 119-257/2025 from January 16, 2025 for five years.

He worked as an expert in the field of supporting the development of MSME and public administration reform in the field of simplification and digital transformation of public administration services on UNOPS and World Health Organization projects in Serbia and projects financed by the OECD and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development abroad.
In the period from 2009 to 2012, he worked on improving the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises and the development of balanced regional development in the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development, and in the period from 2012 to 2015, as the head of the organizational unit for improving the business environment in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy, he worked on significant reform regulations aimed at better business conditions in Serbia and the development of dialogue with the economy. He participated in the drafting of numerous regulations and public policy documents.

He is a certified trainer of the World Bank in the field of analysis of the effects of regulations and of the National Academy for Public Administration in the areas of electronic administration, analysis of the effects of regulations, legislative and planning systems.

Since April 2015, he has been working as the head of the Department and assistant director of the Republic Secretariat for Public Policies.

He is the creator and program manager of award-winning projects at the global, European and regional level, namely:

1. Program for Simplifying Administrative Procedures and Regulation ePAPIR – 2 awards at the Partnership for Public Administration Global Competition 2021 in Korea for the project with the most significant impact on the economy and citizens – chosen as one of the leaders of innovation in public administration at the global level;

2. Register of administrative procedures – Single place for all public administration services – 3 awards at EIPA/EPSA 2024 in the Netherlands – European Award for Innovation in Public Administration;

3. Digital transformation of public administration services in the area of ​​the Green Agenda – winning project ReSPA/SIGMA – regional award for innovations in public administration.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS

Planning is an intellectually challenging process that requires consciously chosen courses of action and decisions based on a purpose, knowledge, and right assessments.

Dijana Ilić Zogović

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Sector for the planning system, coordination, development and improvement of public policies

Marija Mitrović

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Sector for legal, financial affairs, public procurement and human resources

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