People behind the organization.
The Secretariat supports the Society’s organizational, research, publishing, promotional, and professional activities across disaster risk management, resilience, education, and public engagement.
President & Secretariat Team
Meet the President and the professionals responsible for the Society’s secretariat, coordination, promotion, communication, and design activities.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Cvetković
Full Professor of Disaster Risk Management at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies, and President and Founder of SPS-DRM. His work integrates research, higher education, publishing, professional training, and international cooperation in disaster risk reduction and resilience.
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- President and Founder of the Scientific-Professional Society for Disaster Risk Management (SPS-DRM).
- Full Professor of Disaster Risk Management at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies.
- Adjunct Professor at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria, in Safety and Disaster Management.
- Director of the International Institute for Disaster Research.
- Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Management and the International Journal of Contemporary Security Studies.
- Research interests include disaster risk reduction, emergency management, civil protection, community resilience, critical infrastructure, and environmental security.
Dalibor Milenković
Dalibor Milenković is an economist and project-management professional with more than two decades of experience in managing economic and security dimensions of emergencies, unforeseen events, and complex organizational systems.
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- Born in Prokuplje, Serbia, in 1982.
- Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, in 2006.
- Completed a Master's degree in Financial Management and Financial Risk Management at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, in 2012.
- Enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, in 2022/23.
- His doctoral research focuses on adapting BRIC community-resilience indicators for Serbia within the DROP theoretical framework.
- He has published scientific papers connected with his doctoral research.
- His professional background includes project management, crisis management, financial risk management, and organizational resilience.
- He has completed numerous domestic and international seminars, courses, and professional training programmes.
Vanja D. Cvetković
Vanja D. Cvetković combines academic training in security studies and law with practical experience in disaster-risk education, event organization, publishing, public communication, and resilience-focused research.
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- Born in Užice, Serbia, in 1999.
- Graduated from the Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, in 2022, with a thesis on the role of schools in disaster risk reduction.
- Completed a Master's degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad, in 2024, with research on socio-economic factors and community resilience to natural disasters.
- Completed several emergency-management, protection-and-rescue, and safety training programmes organized by SPS-DRM.
- Played a major organizational role in the 2021 seminar on protection and rescue tactics and in national emergency-risk-management training activities.
- Contributed to educational brochures covering floods, fires, earthquakes, landslides, storms, epidemics, droughts, and other emergency scenarios.
- Serves as Secretary of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Management (IJDRM) and supports editorial and publishing operations.
- Her research interests include disaster resilience, risk management, socio-economic determinants of preparedness, and disaster education.
Milica Vlajković
Milica Vlajković is a security professional whose work connects emergency management, occupational safety, fire protection, risk assessment, promotional design, and practical disaster-risk training.
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- Born in Belgrade in 1996.
- Graduated from the Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, in 2021, specializing in Civil Protection and Environmental Protection.
- Holds professional certifications in Occupational Health and Safety, Fire Protection, and Disaster Risk Assessment and Protection-and-Rescue Planning.
- Works at EPS AD, TENT Branch, as a Specialist Associate for Emergency Situations.
- Previously worked in occupational health and safety and fire protection.
- Has been active in SPS-DRM since 2018 and contributed to the organization of training programmes and seminars.
- Supported the planning and design of graphic layouts, advertising materials, and promotional products for SPS-DRM.
- Her professional interests include safety, emergency management, protection and rescue systems, and disaster studies.
Contact the SPS-DRM Secretariat
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