Born and educated in Belgrade, Slobodan Jovanovic started his business career in 1980, and has been an experienced trader of non-ferrous and precious metals. He became very familiar with hedging concepts and strategies and developed a keen interest in the field of derivatives trading and hedging concepts. Jovanovic became a freelance hedging instructor in 2009, running coordination and consultation with intermediaries mainly engaged in non-ferrous metals and the cable industry interested in implementing hedging solutions in their day-to-day operations. Presently, he is engaged in designing short educational seminars on derivatives markets and hedging concepts in real-time context for the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.