Leadership

Professor of Banking and Finance at Singidunum University and Fellow of CESifo, Munich. He holds a PhD in Physics from Brown University and a PhD in Finance from U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

In 2003 he founded IMQF at the University of Belgrade - the first integrative master's program in quantitative finance in Southeast Europe - and directed it until 2020. He went on to create the MCF program at the School of Computing (RAF) in 2021, and in 2026 brought it to its permanent home at Singidunum University, where he now teaches and serves as its Program Director.

He has also taught at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, ICEF at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Earlier in his career he worked at McKinsey & Company and at KPMG in Chicago. His current research focuses on applications of machine learning in finance, risk management, and quantitative investment strategies.

Mikica Drenovak is Professor of Financial Modelling at the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, and Manager of the Master in Computational Finance (MCF) program.

He holds a PhD in Economics and an MSc in Quantitative Finance (IMQF) from the University of Belgrade.

With more than 20 years of experience in quantitative finance, risk modelling and interdisciplinary education, he has taught generations of students working today across finance, technology and analytics industries worldwide. He was also a visiting professor at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.