Mića Jovanović
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Mića Jovanović | |
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Мића Јовановић | |
| Born | 28 January 1953 |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Founder of Megatrend University |
Mića Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мића Јовановић, born 28 January 1953) is a Serbian businessman and university professor. He is the founder and long-time head of Belgrade's Megatrend University. He resigned the position in 2014 after allegations that he had falsely claimed to have a doctorate from the London School of Economics and had supervised a plagiarized thesis.[1] In 2019, Jovanović was once again elected as rector of Megatrend.[2]
Jovanović was born in Knjaževac, Eastern Serbia (then part of FPR Yugoslavia), on 28 January 1953. He completed high school in Bor (1972) and graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade (1976). He got his magister degree in the fields of sociology of work from the same school (1979).[3] Jovanović stated that he gained his PhD degree at the University of Maribor (Slovenia) in 1991 in the field of organizational studies.
University career
Between 1976 and 1991, Jovanović was employed at the University of Belgrade (with interruptions due to his engagements in the United Kingdom), and from 1991 at Megatrend Business School; he became a university professor there in 1996. Between 1997 and 1999, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Management in Zaječar. In 1999, he became Rector of Megatrend University of Belgrade.[3]
From 1983 until 1989, Jovanović gave lectures on self-management and work motivation at various foreign universities: London School of Economics (1983), Bradford University (1983), Portsmouth Polytechnic (1983), Freie Universität Berlin (1987), Okayama University, Japan (1989), University of Tokyo (1991), École supérieure de commerce, Grenoble (1997), Seoul National University (1998). Between 1983 and 1989, he was a member of the research team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the project called "The Future of Work in the Automotive Industry with a View to an Impact of Robotization to the Labour."[citation needed]
Jovanović founded Megatrend University in 1989, which has since been called a "degree mill,"[4] and is one of a number of private universities in Serbia with "reputations for quick, rather than quality, education and links to political parties."[5][6] The university was funded by war profiteers from Slobodan Milošević's party and money from tuition fees was used to fund planes and yachts for Jovanović and others.[7]
