Branko Kovačević


Branko D. Kovačević is a Serbian academic. He served as the rector of the University of Belgrade from 2006 to 2012.

Education and career

He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1975, 1980, and 1984, respectively. He is currently a full professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, teaching courses in control
systems theory and its applications.
He is the President of ETRAN Section for Automatic Control, the President of ETRAN Program committee, and the Editor in chief of the Journal of Automatic Control.
In December 2006, he became rector of the University of Belgrade. He stayed on that position until September 2012, and later returned to his former dean office of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
In 2014, he was named the President of the Supervisory Board of Elektroprivreda Srbije.

Honours and awards

He was awarded: