Silvija Seres
 Silvija Seres      (academic, businesswoman) | |
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| Born | 28 June 1970 Bor, Yugoslavia (Now Serbia) |
| Residence | Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo, Oxford University/Wolfson College, INSEAD |
Business consultant, many board positions. 2019 Bilderberg. From 2020 member of NATO's high-level advisory board on innovation and disruptive technologies. | |
Dr. Silvija Seres is a Norwegian business consultant who describes herself as an "academic techie with a past in corporate leadership, a present in entrepreneurial investment, and a future in large-scale digital transformation processes in public and private sector."[1]
Sitting on many boards, Seres attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019, before being appointed to NATO's high-level advisory board on innovation and disruptive technologies in 2020.
Career
She has worked extensively as a manager of tech startups.[1] She has worked as a system developer and researcher with AltaVista, as well as as a business developer and manager in Norway. She was director of business development at the IT company Fast Search & Transfer, and later held a similar position in the Norwegian division of Microsoft, following the company's acquisition of Fast.
As of 2018, she sits on the board of a number of public and private companies, including NRK, DNV GL, the Oslo Stock Exchange, Academedia and Nordea Insurance. She is a member of the corporate assembly of Telenor and has been a member of several government committees, including Digital 21. She has previously been on the boards of Opera Software, Dagbladet, Statkraft, the publisher Aschehoug and Transparency International[2], Technology Council and Alarga. Seres is president of the Polytechnic Society.
In 2020, she was appointed a member of NATO's high-level advisory board on innovation and disruptive technologies.[3]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2019 | 30 May 2019 | 2 June 2019 | Switzerland Montreux | The 67th Bilderberg Meeting |
