Miodrag Popović

Tourism organisation of Belgrade, Serbia

Započeo je svoju profesionalnu karijeru 1986. godine kao novinar i prevodilac i radio je u nekoliko redakcija. Napravio je novinarsku karijeru radeći kao novinar za TV Beograd gde je takođe radio i kao reporter za CNN. Kasnije je primio nagradu od CNN-a za najveći broj emitovanja (preko 80) u toku jedne godine. Nastavio je svoju karijeru kao urednik emisije “24 časa u svetu” i kao urednik spoljnopolitičkog i informativnog programa na RTS-u. U periodu od 1998. do 2001. obavljao je dužnost pomoćnika ministra za informisanje. Nakon što je radio na jednoj od vodećih televizijskih stanica u Srbiji (TV Pink) kao spoljnopolitički urednik, početkom 2005. godine postaje savetnik za medije u Ministarstvu trgovine, turizma i usluga, a 2006. izabran je za direktora Turističke organizacije Srbije. Početkom 2007. godine postaje član upravnog odbora Evropske turističke zajednice, a kasnije iste godine ponovo radi kao spoljnopolitički urednik na televiziji Pink. Nakon što je 2012. godine postao spoljini politički savetnik predsednika Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije, krajem 2013. imenovan je za vršioca dužnosti direktora Turističke organizacije Beograda.

He began his professional career in 1986, as a journalist and translator working in several editorial offices. He made a journalistic career as a journalist for TV Belgrade, where he was working also as a reporter for CNN World Report. Later, he received the CNN award for the largest number of broadcasts (over 80) during one year. He continued his career as editor of the show “24 Hours in the World” and a foreign political & informative Program editor in the national television station of Serbia (RTS). In the period from 1998 to 2001 he served as the Assistant Minister of Information. Following his work at one of the leading television stations in Serbia (TV Pink) as a foreign policy editor, he became a media adviser at the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Services in early 2005, and in 2006 he was elected Director of the Tourist Organization of Serbia. In early 2007, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the European Tourist Board, and later in the same year he started working again as foreign political editor at Pink TV station. After becoming an external political adviser to the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 2012, at the end of 2013, he was appointed as acting Director of the Tourist Organization of Belgrade.