Ivana Popović

Ivana Popović (Ивана Поповић; born 20 February 1989) is a Serbian publisher, entrepreneur, and politician. She has served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia and has been a state secretary in the ministry of agriculture, forestry, and water management. Popović is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Early life and private career
Popović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree as an economist and has been the marketing manager of the journals Ona and Černogorija. After the start of her professional career, she moved to her family's farm at Kržava in the Krupanj municipality and founded the Džemara company, which specializes in jams and produces sauces, spices, and other food products. She was awarded the cup for innovation in agribusiness at the 86th Annual Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad in 2019.

Parliamentarian and state secretary
Popović was given the fifth position on the Progressive Party's For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. This was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a landslide majority victory with 188 out of 250 mandates. During the campaign, she said that her priorities would be small entrepreneurs, youth issues, and ensuring youth have a reason to remain in Serbia.

In her first parliamentary term, Popović was a member of the economy committee and the culture and information committee, a deputy member of the agriculture committee, a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with South Korea, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Popović received the 129th position on the SNS's Together We Can Do Everything list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won a plurality victory with 120 seats, and she was not immediately re-elected. She briefly returned to the assembly in October 2022 as the replacement for another SNS member, but she stood down the following month.

Popović was appointed as a state secretary in Serbia's ministry of agriculture, forestry, and water management in late 2022. In the term that followed, she represented the ministry at various events throughout Serbia, including the "Taste of the South" event in Vlasotince and the fifteenth agricultural fair in Kruševac.

Municipal politics
Popović received the fifth position the Progressive Party's list for the Krupanj municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections (held concurrently with that year's parliamentary election) and was elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-five out of thirty-five seats. Her term ended on 30 October 2023 when the assembly was dissolved for early elections.