Katarina Jonev, born in 1987 in Belgrade, is an expert on cyber terrorism and one of the rare who is educating children and parents about Internet and social networks security and protection in this region.
A graduate from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, at the age of 23, in international relations, she enrolled and completed her master studies of international public law at the Law Faculty in Belgrade. Since October, 2016 she has been PhD candidate at Faculty of Security Studies.
At the age of 10 she became the youngest ever journalist in Serbia. From 1997 to 2011 she worked for TV Studio B, Radio Television of Serbia, Radio Belgrade 202, Radio Stanka, wrote for daily newspapers Blic, daily newspaper Politika "Politika za decu", Voždovačke novine, Novosadski Neven, Sportski Žurnal, magazin "Samo Partizan", portal "Serbia Today", etc.
The Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia has chosen her as its youngest scholarship awardee in 1997.
Since 2015 Katarina has been dealing with cyber security policies, taking part in domestic and international scientific conferences, publishing scientific papers on cyber terrorism, cyber warfare and cyber crime. Among other things, she participated in conferences at the Serbian Military Academy, the Criminal Police Academy, the Faculty of Law. She is the founder of educational center which is dedicated to education and promotion of safety behavior on the Internet.
She is the president of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Court IT Experts ‘’IT Veštak’’, a member of the Serbian Royal Academy of Innovation Sciences, member of a professional association ‘’E-razvoj/ E-Development’’.