Tatjana Matić

Tatjana Matić (; born 2 July 1972) is a Serbian politician who served as minister of trade, tourism and telecommunications from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS), she served as state secretary in the first cabinet of Ana Brnabić.

Biography

Early life and career She was born in 1972 in Belgrade which at the time was a part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade and became a professor of Serbian language and literature.

From February to November 2001, she was the Assistant Director for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of the company "Panasonic". From 2001 to 2002 she worked as a marketing manager of the Belgrade company "William Grants - MPS Group".

In 2005, she passed the "Women Leaders" program organized by the US State Department. In the following years, she also went through trainings for the fight against discrimination and risk assessment. In 2010, she was trained as a trainer for IPA programs 3 and 4 (training was funded by the EU).

In July 2012, she was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications. During that period, she was in the highest position in the implementation of the program of transition from analog to digital TV format in Serbia, she was also the president of several negotiating groups with the European Union within the Coordination Body for the EU accession process., competition and consumer protection and health protection). In the same period, she was also the president of the Product Safety Council and a member of the Board of the Development Fund. She held all these positions until April 2014.