Aleksandra Jovic

Aleksandra Jovic is a medical doctor with more than 20 years of experience in social development. She is currently holding the post of an Early Childhood Development Specialist in UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office tasked to support work in 22 countries, to mainstream early childhood development principles in health, nutrition, education, child protection, and emergency planning and response. In her current role she is managing progams related to health system support to early childhood development, home visiting, early intervention as well as development and deployment of several digital innovations (parenting app Bebbo, Cboard app as an open source AAC solution) aimed at improving access and quality of health and education services for young children and their parents.

As a national of Serbia, within her previous assignments she worked on development and implementation of UNICEF programs in Serbia, working with governmental and non-governmental partners to strengthen health programs, including home visiting, education and social protection programs as well as local level delivery of coordinated social services.

 As an employee of the Government of Serbia, Aleksandra managed the overall implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy for Serbia, and was directly involved in development of coordination, oversight and implementation modalities of multi-sectoral policies and initiatives at the national level.