Uglješa Marjanović is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Novi Sad and currently serves as a Managing Director of Frankfurt School Solutions GmbH branch office Serbia, a subsidiary of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

He has earned his PhD degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and was a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering at the City University London. Ugljesa held visiting posts at Bloomsburg University, Penn State University, and helped set up the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia.

He has also been an Adviser to the Minister of Innovation at the Government of Serbia. Developed numerous policy recommendations and reports in digital education.

His research, teaching, and advisory activities are at the intersection of strategy, innovation, digital education, and industrial engineering. His preferred research methods are field surveys, interviews, and observations, as well as multivariate statistical analysis.

Uglješa’s research has been published in well-established academic journals, Information and Management, Information Systems and e-Business Management, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Advances in Production Engineering and Management. He is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management and a full member of IFIP WG5.7.

He led numerous national and international projects and provided several consultancies, such as EC, ETF, JRC, USAID, UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, Microsoft, ERI SEE, PwC. Ugljesa was also a branch manager at Tangled – a startup offering state-of-the-art AI solutions, as well as a managing director of efiport GmbH branch office Serbia.