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Sanja Miovčić

Executive Director at the Foreign Investors Council (FIC)
Sanja Miovčić is acting as an Executive Director at the Foreign Investors Council (FIC) of Bosnia and Herzegovina as of 2016. The FIC is the most important independent business association, which since 2006 has been actively promoting and developing a predictable, competitive, and sustainable business environment through open dialogue with the authorities and other relevant partners. Today, FIC brings together more then 70 foreign and domestic companies that have invested more than EUR 4.5 billion and employ more than 20,000 workers.

Sanja has more than 20 years of professional experience in numerous international companies and organizations. Before joining the FIC she worked for more than ten years as a Business Development & Marketing Manager at the respectable Austrian consulting company Wolf Theiss.

Sanja is supporting companies on investment and business development issues with highly developed problem solving and strategic planning ability.

In her impressive career, she has passed a number of prestigious fellowship and study programs in USA, UK, China and Austria, such as the British-Bosnia and Herzegovina Fellowship Programme, London, US Embassy's Professional Exchange Program – IVLP and The Leadership Academy for Development (LAD) a project of the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, part of Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Sanja targeted her activities at lobbying, communication, and networking through her membership at numerous global and local associations. Currently she is a Board member of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPA), Past President and Board Member of IFTDO (International Federation of Training and Development Organizations), a global association founded in 1972 in Geneva, member of European Women Association (EWA),

and member of CEEWABA - Central Eastern European & West African Business Association, as well as a Board Member of Impakt Investment Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sanja is also one of the most influential persons in the country, a dedicated individual that makes fundamental changes in the society, business environment and local community. She has been offered many times to continue with her professional development abroad, but for the moment Sanja's area of engagement is related to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Western Balkans.

She used to live and work in several countries in the Western Balkans and she is very familiar with the regional economic, investment and business environment, both challenges and opportunities. Sanja is a regular speaker and guest at the most significant conferences in the country and abroad. She is fluent in English and French, and communicates in Italian, Spanish and German language. In addition to her dedication to work and personal development, Sanja's passion is writing, reading and sailing.