At IEECP, Ivana is Senior Energy expert.

Before joining IEECP in 2020, Ivana was working since 2013 in the Society for Sustainable Development Design as a Project Manager/Senior Expert and Program Director, managed and worked on more than 15 projects in the field of energy and climate. She (co)-authored policy analysis and recommendations in the area of energy efficiency and renewable energy, SECAPs, publications, research and educational materials. Ivana worked from 2007 to 2013 for the energy service company HEP ESCO, where she participated in the implementation of first energy efficiency projects in Croatia.

She is president of DOOR, member of the Sustainable Energy Finance Association (SEFA) representing IEECP, of the EEFIG working group, Advisory Boards of projects, the local energy transition advisory group, and is an external lecturer on ETS in the Energy Economics MBA. She was also a member of the Steering Committee of the Covenant of Companies before it ended.

In IEECP, Ivana is leading the work in energy efficiency in business sector.

She obtained a CMVP certificate,  professional education for energy audits in buildings, one year education on management of EU funding. Her educational background includes a MSc in Electrical Engineering – Energy Systems (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia), a MSc (specialist degree) in Environmental Engineering (University of Zagreb, Center for Postgraduate studies) and an MBA in Energy Economics (Faculty of Economics and Business, Rijeka, Croatia). She is currently a PhD student in Economics.