Majda Gluščević

Majda Gluščević was born on July 6, 1974. She graduated from the School of economics, University of Montenegro in 1997. She completed two-year Postgraduate studies, major Financial management, at the School of economics, University of Montenegro (1998-2000). She won Chevening Scholarship, funded by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) for postgraduate studies in 2002. She made research and completed her master thesis in management and control of payment system risk at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), obtaining master's degree in 2005 from the School of economics, University of Montenegro. She enrolled PhD studies at the School of economics, University of Montenegro.

She started her career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenego in 1998, as an intern in the Consular department and afterwards as an advisor until 2000.

In 2000-2005 she worked for USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) on numerous projects aimed to economic reforms in Montenegro: Mass Voucher Privatization Implementation Assistant (Barents LLC), SME Project Advisor (FLAG), Program Coordinator for Budget and Intergovernmental Finance (ICMA), Senior Finance Advisor for payment system reform (Barents LLC), Budget and Finance Advisor (US Treasury) and Senior Finance Advisor (The Urban Institute).

She worked in the Central Bank of Montenegro (CBM) from 2005-2017 as the Portfolio manager/Chief Supervisor in the Banking Supervision Department. She took part in numerous trainings, seminars and conferences in the area of risk management in banking and international accounting standards. She worked on development of banking regulation and bylaws, guidelines, procedures and methodologies relevant for banking supervision and she was coordinator of several working groups. She was Component 1 Leader for CBM, Ministry of finance, Capital Market Authority and Insurance Supervision Agency under EU IPA Programme-Twinning Contract „Strengthening the regulatory and supervisory capacity of the financial regulators“, November 2010-2012, with an active role in development of banking regulation in accordance with EU acquis.

She has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2020 as the Counsellor in the General Directorate for Multilateral Affairs and afterwards in the General Directorate for Bilateral Affairs.