Zdravko Ilic is Senior Trade Expert in charge of Trade in Services in the CEFTA Secretariat. He has built more than 15 years of professional experience working in public and private organisations on various aspects of EU and regional integration.

He has spent 10 years in Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia where he held the position of the director of the Representative office in Brussels and head of EU integration unit in Belgrade. He has also worked as a consultant to World Bank, European Commission and other international organisations. Besides Serbo-Croatian, he speaks English and some French.