Ivan M. Petrovic is at present President of the Managing Board at EXIT Foundation and responsible for running social activities and public affairs of EXIT Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Sea Dance Festival(Budva, Montenegro), Sea Star Festival(Umag, Croatia), Festival 84 (Jahorina, BiH) and Founder of Public Idea Consulting Agency.

Ivan is consultant in area of creative industries, sustainability and corporate social responsibility and also follows: social activism, international relations, event management, Diaspora & development topics, youth tourism, destination branding, public diplomacy etc.

Ivan is President of the Grupation of the Event organizers and member of the Council for development of creative industries of the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia.

15 years of experiences in youth activism, NGO sector, international relations and Diaspora, project management and tourism made him passionate in connecting private sector and public sector with civil sector on joint mission of creating positive social changes.

Was attendee of Petnica Science Center during high school and later graduated management studies at University of Belgrade (Faculty of Organizational Sciences).

For several years was program manager at Serbian Unity Congress, organization of Serbian Diaspora in US and was creating and implementing projects for fostering cooperation among US and Serbia and harvesting Diaspora potential for economic, social and cultural development of Serbia.

For a while was Director of Crown Prince Alexander II Karadjordjevic Foundation for Education and Culture at The Royal Palace Belgrade.

In past 15 year was involved in many interesting activities and positions such as:President of Student Union of University of Belgrade; Junior consultant of World Bank; Founder of the first
academic Career Center in Serbia at Faculty of Organizational Sciences(2004); Member of supreme Council of University of Belgrade etc.