Alek Jovovic

Aleksandar (Alek) Jovovic is deputy director at the Center for the Industrial Base and a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Mr. Jovovic has over two decades of expertise in business strategy, military technology, defense industrial issues, and international partnerships. Prior to CSIS, Mr. Jovovic was an aerospace and defense consultant at Avascent and Oliver Wyman, advising leading industry and public sector stakeholders worldwide. In that capacity, Mr. Jovovic directed over 150 engagements on growth, investment, commercialization, competitive challenges, entry into new markets and geographies, geostrategic risk, and mergers and acquisitions in defense, aerospace, and technology markets. He has also advised the U.S. and allied governments on defense acquisition policy, industrial development, and international cooperation. Alongside his consulting work, Mr. Jovovic has published on business, policy, and technology trends in the aerospace and defense sectors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jovovic advised firms in the commercial sector on supplier and customer management at Vantage Partners. Mr. Jovovic was also an analyst at CENTRA Technology, where he served U.S. government clients on national security issues including Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review. At the start of his professional career, Mr. Jovovic conducted foreign affairs and national security research in the Foreign Policy division at the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University and holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.