At today's Extraordinary Shareholder Meeting of CGES, which was held in Podgorica, the previous convocation of the Board of Directors of the Crnogorski elektroprenosni sistem, headed by the Chairwoman of that body Vesna Bracanović, was removed. The shareholders also confirmed the decision to appoint new members of the Board of Directors, so in the future the state capital in CGES will be represented by: Aleksandar Mijušković, B.Sc.E.E., Predrag Mijajlović, B.Sc.E.E., Orhan Šahmanović, LLB and Dušan Kljajić, B.Sc. in Applied Computer Sciences. Jelena Matejić, BEcon, will represent the joint-stock company Elektromreža Srbije in CGES Board, while Giovanni Cerchiarini and Guido Guida will represent the Italian energy company Terna - Rete Elettrica Nazionale S.p.A.
On the same day, a constitutive meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors was held, at which it was decided that Aleksandar Mijušković will cover the role of the Chairman of the Board of Directors in the next term, while Giovanni Cerchiarini was entrusted with the role of Vice Chairman.
The new Chairman of the Board of Directors Aleksandar Mijušković pointed out that the election is a great honour and responsibility for him, but also a great obligation for the management and all employees to reach a common goal - a modern international electric power company that aims to implement capital projects that would encourage the inflow of new investments in Montenegro.
“I am convinced that all of us together in the company, on the path of its development strategy, will put maximum efforts to become a transmission system operator that with its progress, and following the best European practice, will provide at all times a high level of security of electricity transmission to consumers in Montenegro. We definitely can and will do that", Mijušković said, reminding that he has already worked at CGES, that he knows this company and all its potentials.
Aleksandar Mijušković CV
Aleksandar Mijušković is a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering – major energy, with a relevant experience of 26 years in this field. Until now, he has served as an Advisor to the Executive Director of the Coordinated Auction Office in South East Europe (SEE CAO), which allocates cross-border transmission capacities between transmission system operators (TSOs) in Southeast Europe, which are also the company's founders.
Until 2019, he was the Executive Director of SEE CAO, and as a continuation of a significant role in the formation of this successful regional company, he held numerous positions, from Project Team Chairman to the Executive Director of the Project Company in charge of establishing SEE CAO.
Since 1995, he has worked at the National Dispatching Centre in numerous positions from Operational Dispatcher to Chief Engineer for Analytics, Energy Billing and Forecasts and has gained extensive experience in electric power transmission system control.
The last position he covered in the CGES, until 2012, was the Director of the Sector for Regulatory, Legal, Personnel and International Cooperation Affairs.
He was a member of SEETSO TF (South East Europe Transmission System Operators Working Group), a member of ENTSO-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity), the Market Committee and the ENTSO-E Regional Group for South East Europe, as well as a member of EUROELECTRIC (European Electricity Industry Association), a working group for Southeast Europe.
Aleksandar Mijušković was one of the initiators of the project of connecting Montenegro and Italy with a submarine power cable and a member of the negotiating team with the Italian transmission system operator Terna.
As a member of the Montenegrin delegation, he participated in the meetings of the plenary subcommittee and sector meetings of the Enhanced Permanent Dialogue between the European Commission and Montenegro on transport, energy, environmental and regional policy.
He has achieved successful cooperation with transmission system operators, energy companies, the Energy Community Secretariat, as well as international financial institutions.
In his career so far, in addition to the above, he has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and seminars throughout Europe and is a partner of the Institute for Energy for Southeast Europe (IENE) in Athens.