Biography:
Stevan Stević was born on March 26, 1957, in Trnjaci, Brčko Municipality. He completed primary school in Trnjaci and Brezovo Polje (in 1972). He graduated from high school (in 1976) and the Faculty of Economics (in 1980) in Brčko. He earned his master's degree (in 1987) and Ph.D. (in 1992) in statistical sciences from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade.
At the Faculty of Economics in Brčko, he was appointed as a junior assistant (in 1980), assistant (in 1982), and senior assistant (in 1987). He was elected as an assistant professor in 1993 at the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka, and as an associate professor (in 1998) and full professor (in 2006) at the Faculty of Economics in Brčko.
He was a member of the Classification Section of the Association of Statistical Societies of the SFR Yugoslavia and a collaborator with the Market Research Institute in Belgrade.
He participated in teaching processes at universities in East Sarajevo (Faculty of Economics Pale, Faculty of Philosophy Pale, Faculty of Transport Doboj), in Banja Luka (Faculty of Economics), and in Tuzla (Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation). Currently, in the first cycle of studies, he teaches at the Faculty of Economics in Brčko (in courses: Statistics, Economic Statistics, and Financial Mathematics) and at the Faculty of Business Economics in Bijeljina (in the course: Business Statistics). In the second cycle of studies, he teaches at the Faculty of Economics in Brčko (in the course: Quantitative Economics).
He has held positions as Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Economics in Brčko, Vice-Rector for Finance at the University of East Sarajevo, Minister of Education in the Government of Republika Srpska, and Director of the Agency for Standards and Evaluation in Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He participated in one-month study visits to the USA (in 1997) and England (in 2001). He was a member of the Council and Senate of the University of East Sarajevo and Head of the Department of Quantitative Economics at the university.
As an author and co-author, he has published several books and textbooks, as well as numerous scientific and professional papers in the fields of business economics, statistics, and actuarial science. He has participated as a leader and team member in projects in the fields of economics, management, tourism, and education. He has been a mentor and a member of committees for the evaluation and defense of doctoral dissertations and master's theses at universities in East Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar, Belgrade, and Novi Sad.
He contributed to the International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, published in 2011 by Springer Verlag. He was a member of the Board of Economic Sciences of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska. He is part of the Academy's team for the creation of the Encyclopedia of Republika Srpska.Bibliography
Textbooks
Statistical Analysis – Methods and Applications, Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka, 2006. (co-author).
Statistical Analysis – Methods and Applications, 2nd edition, National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, 2017. (co-author).
Financial Mathematics – Basics and Applications, Faculty of Economics in Brčko, 2010.
Financial Mathematics – Basics and Applications, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Faculty of Economics in Brčko, 2014. (co-author).
Economics of Enterprises, Faculty of Economics in Brčko, 1998. (co-author).
Programming and the CLIPPER Programming Language, Faculty of Economics in Brčko, 1999. (co-author).
Scientific Books and Monographs
Research on the Impact of Production Capacities on the Efficiency of Textile Industry Operations, Izit, Belgrade, 1994.
Geometric Mean, International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, Springer (2011): 608-609, January 1, 2011.
Application of MCDM Methods to Tourism Evaluation of Cultural Sites, Cultural Urban Heritage, Development, Learning, and Landscape Strategies, Zagreb, Croatia, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019. (co-author).
Business Rating 500 Republic of Srpska, Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka, Faculty of Economics in Brčko, 1999, 2000, 2001. (co-editor).
Statistical Measurement of Multidimensional Phenomena and Processes in Economics, Faculty of Economics Brčko, 2024.
Key Papers
Evaluation and Selection of Investment Variants Using I-distance, Statistical Review, 1-4, for 1999, pages 122-127. (co-author).
Modeling of Labor Productivity Factors, Economics, No. 4-5/98, pages 136-137, Belgrade, 1998.
Good Governance as a Tool of Sustainable Development, European Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 5, 4, 558-573, Rome, 2016. (co-author).
Challenges for the Survival of Travel Agencies Due to New Trends in the Tourism Market, In M. Kozak & N. Kozak (Eds.), 6th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism Hospitality and Leisure. Ankara, 2012. (co-author).
Development of Education in the Function of Improving the Competitiveness of the Economy of the Republic of Srpska, Proceedings, ANURS, Banja Luka, 2013. (co-author).
Application of MCDM Methods to Evaluation in Tourism: Some of Porto's Most Emblematic Cultural Sites, 5th UNESCO Conference 2017, Culture, Tourism, and Development, Coimbra, Portugal (co-author).
Building a Business Environment for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises as a Prerequisite for Increasing the Competitiveness of the Economy of Small Countries, Scientific Conference of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Srpska and the Serbian Academy of Sciences, Banja Luka, 2017. (co-author).
Usage of Customer Profitability Management Tools on the Textile Market of Bosnia and Herzegovina, FIBRES & TEXTILES in Eastern Europe, Institute of Biopolymers and Chemical Fibers, 2018. (co-author).
Perceived Usefulness of Marketing Tools: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland, Proceedings of the Faculty of Economics Brčko, No. 16, 2022. (co-author).
The Assessment of Study Conditions and the Quality of Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Proceedings of the Faculty of Economics Brčko, No. 17, 2023. (co-author).
Key Projects
External Evaluation of Student Achievements in Final Grades of Primary Schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Agency for Standards and Evaluation in Education for FBiH and RS, 2004. (Project Leader).
Mapping of Socio-Cultural, Tourist, and Natural Attractions in the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Development of a Study on Tourist Signaling (Phase 1), Faculty of Economics Brčko, 2020. (Project Leader).
Creation of a Platform for Improving the Business of Rural Households in the Field of Tourism and Increasing the Visibility of the Tourist Offer of Teslić Municipality, Tourist Organization of Teslić Municipality, 2022. (Project Team Member).Other Competencies:
Dr. Stević writes aphorisms, short stories, and poems. He has published fifteen books of aphorisms and one collection each of short stories and poems. He is featured in anthologies and encyclopedias of aphorisms.
