Ivan Videnovic

Area of Expertise:

• Administration, Management, Finance/Accounting, Procurement
• Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
• Director, CEO, COP, President
• Infrastructure, Technology, Engineering, Science
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis

Professional Experience:

Positions held:

1. Programme Management Officer (P-4) at the INternational Atomic Energy Agency.

Main responsibilities:

• Needs analysis, planning, designing, budgeting, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of technical cooperation projects in developing IAEA Member States to meet their socio-economic and development goals by using results-based management (RBM) principles and logical framework approach (LFA). Partnerships building with stakeholders.
• Serving as Programme Manager and Country Officer for Belarus, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine.
• Serving as Project Manager for multilateral technical cooperation projects in Europe region.

Main achievements:

• Established a cyclotron facility and provided capacity building to the Warsaw University to enhance radiopharmaceutical production in Poland;
• New linear medical accelerator provided and staff trained of the North Estonia Regional Hospital in Tallinn to further improve radiotherapy services in the country;
• Introduced a new linear medical accelerator to improve radiotherapy services at the Gomel Regional Oncology Centre (south-east Belarus, heavily affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986);
• Supported decommissioning and safe management of radioactive waste at the Chernobyl NPP, Ukraine.
• Reviewed status of nuclear power infrastructure in advanced embarking countries in Europe: Belarus, Poland and Turkey. Peer-review of the nuclear safety infrastructure in Poland.
• Recognitions of the governments of Belarus, Poland and Ukraine, as well as the University of Warsaw for the achievements in technical cooperation with the IAEA.

2. State Secretary / Assistant Minister, Ministry of Science of Serbia

Main responsibilities:

• Government official at the highest professional / political level, Head of the Department. Advisor to the Minster and a member of the Ministers’ Cabinet. Managing and leading the team of professional civil servants and support staff, providing a leadership to the team, acting as a role model and setting the professional and working standards.
• Designing, budgeting and implementation of the Ministry’s Programme of International Cooperation in Science and Technology. Adviser to the Minister and member of the Minster’s Cabinet. Participation in relevant inter-ministerial bodies and working groups. Participation in Government sessions.
• Executive responsibilities (supervisor, chief negotiator, member of delegation) in international bilateral and multilateral cooperation in science and technology, nuclear safety, security and nonproliferation; diplomacy and partnership building with bilateral and multilateral international stakeholders.
• Budgeting and supervising the national Nuclear Decommissioning Programme, including the spent nuclear fuel return to the country of origin and intergovernmental agreement with the Russian Federation.
• Country representative in international and regional initiatives and executive bo