Branko Kovačević | |
Native Name: | Бранко Ковачевић |
Birth Date: | 29 June 1951 |
Birth Place: | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
Nationality: | Serbian |
Known For: | Rector of the University of Belgrade |
Occupation: | Academic |
Branko D. Kovačević (Serbian: Бранко Ковачевић; born 29 June 1951) is a Serbian academic. He served as the rector of the University of Belgrade from 2006 to 2012.
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 controlsystems 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 (published by the Belgrade University Press).
In December 2006, he became rector of the University of Belgrade.[1] He stayed on that position until September 2012, and later returned to his former dean office of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.[2]
In 2014, he was named the President of the Supervisory Board of Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS).[3]
He was awarded: