
Gordana Knežević Orlić
Gordana Knežević-Orlić was born in 1962 in Novi Sad. She holds degrees from two faculties – the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She entered the field of education in Serbia in 2004 as the General Director of Klett Publishing House, a position she still holds today.
Over two decades, Klett Publishing House has become a leader in educational publishing, with more than 2,000 textbooks for primary and secondary education and successful collaboration with over 1,000 domestic authors from various fields.
Gordana Knežević-Orlić has played an active role in the process of introducing digital technologies into education. In the past seven years, Klett has been producing modern, interactive digital textbooks that help students better understand the material and develop essential 21st-century skills.
For her innovative approach to educational publishing, she was awarded the “Flower of Success for a Dragon Woman” in 2010, and in the same year received the ULUPUDS Award at the Belgrade International Book Fair for innovations in Serbian art education.
In addition to her tireless efforts to digitalize the educational process in Serbia, Gordana Knežević-Orlić is also engaged, through the Association of Textbook and Teaching Aids Publishers of Serbia, in raising awareness about the harmful impact of piracy on the publishing sector and the importance of copyright protection for the economy as a whole.
She often emphasizes that a textbook is a cultural asset and that we have a duty to provide new generations of students in our country with modern education, functional literacy, and the competencies necessary to be competitive in the global labor market.