SASA Officials elected

SASA Officials – President, two Vice-Presidents and General Secretary who will be at the helm of the Academy for the upcoming four year term (2019-2023) were elected at the SASA Assembly held on Thursday, 4 April.

Academician Vladimir S. Kostić was re-elected SASA President, with Academician Marko Anđelković remaining SASA General Secretary. The current Vice-Presidents, Zoran V. Popović (elected among members of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geo Sciences, Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Department of Technical Sciences and Department of Medical Sciences) and Ljubomir Maksimović (elected among members of the Department of Language and Literature, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Historical Sciences and Department of Visual Arts and Music) will keep their positions in the upcoming period.

The entire leadership of SASA was elected by an overwhelming majority of votes which indicates, as Academician Vladimir S. Kostić noted, “a consensus which surprises everyone.”

In the previously outlined Proposal of SASA activities, he emphasized that the future of the Academy should be taken into consideration in the period to come, in order to mutually define necessary steps and potential changes for the sake of a better course of action. The Proposal accentuated intensification of domestic and international cooperation, as well as numerous activities of SASA which should continue to include work on key national projects accompanied by critical monitoring of the current state of the affairs primarily in education, science and arts.

Finally, as it was asserted in the Proposal, as well as in the post-election speech, SASA President maintained that team work was one of the most important elements of the former and future governance of the institution.