Jelena Todorović received her MA and PhD from University College London, and is a Full Professor of Early Modern European Culture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts in Belgrade, where she is also the Vice-Dean for International Cooperation. Since 2006, she has run the State Art Collection in Belgrade, for which she received the European Union Award for Cultural Heritage in 2018. Although an art historian by training, her interests have always been more directed towards early modern cultural history, as well as curatorial work and the history of collecting in the first half of the 20th century.