Biography
Tijana advises banks, fintech companies, insurers and international enterprises on complex cross-border compliance and corporate questions, including DORA, NIS2, the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Her clients include multinational companies operating across Southeast Europe and some of the largest IT companies in the global sector.
She specialised in IT Law and Data Protection at the University of Cambridge and through internships at four leading London barristers’ chambers, under the mentorship of prominent English barristers. Alongside IT Law and Data Protection, her practice covers corporate law and M&A and labour law.
Tijana holds an impressive list of awards and recognitions from international directories, and was named among the 30 tech lawyers from CEE selected by The Recursive community.
From 2015 to 2018 she served as Secretary of the Belgrade Arbitration Center, a permanent institution administering domestic and international disputes under the auspices of the Association for Arbitration Law.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad in the top 1% of her class, and completed master’s degrees at the University of Novi Sad (summa cum laude), the University of Luxembourg (cum laude) and the University of Cambridge (cum laude), where she was a scholar of the University and the Open Society Foundation. She is fluent in English and also speaks French.
Awards
- Lexology Index: Thought Leader in Data — Data Privacy & Protection
- Lexology Index: Thought Leader in Data — Information Technology
- Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Employment & Labor — Employment & Labor
- Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Artificial Intelligence — Transactional and Advisory
- Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Client Choice — Employment & Labor
- Lexology Index: Recommended Leader in the field of Employment and Labor Law
- Lexology Index: Recommended in Data — Data Privacy & Protection
- Lexology Index: Recommended in Data — Information Technology
- Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Artificial Intelligence — Transactional and Advisory
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Employment Law
- Legal500: Recognized in two guides for Serbia, Employment Law and Intellectual Property Law
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2024” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Information Technology, “Data:2024” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader in the field of Information Technology, “Data:2023” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2023” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Employment Law, “Labour, Employment and Benefits:2023” Guide
- Legal500: Recognized in two guides for Serbia, Employment Law and Intellectual Property Law
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Information Technology, “Data:2023” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2023” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: “Thought Leader – Data 2022” in the field of Data Privacy & Protection
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2022” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: “Thought Leader – Data 2021” in the field of Data Privacy & Protection
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2021” Guide
- Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2020” Guide
Work experience
Co-Founder at Lexelerate
Secretary of the Belgrade Arbitration Center
Founder of IT start-up iQdemic
London Barristers’ Chambers: Brick Court, South Square and Monckton Chambers
Admitted to the Bar Association of Serbia and to the Bar Association of Vojvodina
