‍Aleksandra Tomanic is a GIZ senior advisor assigned to the German-Serbian Initiative for Sustainable Growth and Employment, a globally unique instrument of German development cooperation. The Initiative has been established by German and Serbian ministers with the purpose of connecting and streamlining all German development cooperation activities in Serbia.

Previously she worked as coordinator for regional initiatives and EU policies at the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit of the Government of Serbia. Her formal professional career started at the European Commission, DG Enlargement, where she was part of the Enlargement strategy and policy unit, covering different horizontal policies, but in particular civil society and media issues.