Nataša Kovačević,  M. Sc. - Deputy Minister for Finance and Contracting of the EU Assistance Funds (CFCU)

Nataša Kovačević was born on 25th December 1975, in Podgorica, where she finished elementary school and Gymnasium “Slobodan Škerović“. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics. At the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica she obtained a Master’s Degree, the topic “Obtaining Accreditation for the Decentralised Management of the EU Funds in Montenegro”.

In the period 2000–2004, she worked for private company “Termoinžinjering”, and in the period from 2004 to February 2008, she served as an Independent Advisor II in the International Cooperation and the EU Integration Department, and from February to September 2008 she was a financing and contracting referent in the Ministry of Finance. From September 2008, she served as Independent Advisor I, in the CFCU. In August 2009, she was appointed Assistant Minister for CFCU.

She took part in numerous training programmes: “2009 IPA Preparation for Cohesion Policy”, Brussels, Belgium, 2009; “Instruction for Programming Funds Available Through IPA Component I – Transition Assistance and Institution Building”, Budva, Montenegro, 2009; “SPO’s and CFCU Role in Procurement Procedures Compliant to PRAG Rules”, organized by a Twining Project, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2008; “Development of Project Fiches for IPA National Programme 2009”, Cetinje, Montenegro, 2008; “Twining Instruments Presentation”, Podgorica, Montenegro, in 2008; “IPA Implementation Stages of the National Programme”, Podgorica, Montenegro, in 2008; “IPA Road to the EU Cohesion Policy”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2008; “How to Operate in Brussels”, Hague, Holland, in 2007; “Preparation of Project Fiches for Available EU Funds”, Belgrade, Serbia, in 2007; “Practical Guide for the Public Procurement Compliant to the EU - PRAG Standards”, Podgorica, Montenegro, in 2007; Study Visit to German Institutions, on assistance coordination for Structural and Cohesion Funds, 2007; Seminar “IPA Monitoring and Evaluation“, "Managing EU Funds" Zagreb, Croatia, 2007; Study visit to Polish Institutions, exchange of experience in the process of institutions building in the pre-accession period, 2007; Applied Economic Policy Course, Vienna, Austria, 2006; Conference on allocation of the EU funds – the first CFCU Conference, Bucharest, Rumania, 2005; EU instruments in economic and social development functions, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2005; Seminar on Economic and Monetary Union, Brussels, Belgium, 2005.

She is fluent in English, fair in Italian and Russian language.

E-mail: natasa.kovacevic@mif.gov.me