Olga Stanojlović, MBE

Olga Stanojlović was born in Wiltshire to parents who came to Britain after WW2. She completed a history degree and teacher training at the University of Warwick and soon afterwards joined the British Council where she held a variety of posts and where she was Director of Education in Schools at the time of her early retirement in 2010. Olga was awarded an MBE in 2001 for her work in education and developing relations with Africa and Eastern Europe. She is a founder member of the Serbian Council of Great Britain (SCGB) and has been Chair of SCGB since 2015. Olga has led the Council’s work on the Serbian language since 2011 and is Chair of the Round Table Working Group on the Serbian Language. She is trustee of a number of charities and organisations including the Father Nikolich’s Settlement Trust, the Ladies Guild of the Serbian Orthodox Church, The British Serbian Benevolent Fund, The Thames Festival and is a non-executive director of the Big Ideas Company.