He resigned the position in 2014 after allegations that he had falsely claimed to have a doctorate from the London School of Economics and had supervised a plagiarized thesis.
Between 1983 and 1989, he was a member of the research team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the project called "The Future of Work in the Automotive Industry with a View to an Impact of Robotization to the Labour.
[7] In June 2014, British-based Serbian academics criticized the doctoral dissertation of Nebojša Stefanović, Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, and Jovanović's protégé.
In response, a law lecturer at the University of Nottingham, Dr. Marko Milanović, challenged Jovanović's claim to have a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE).
[1][8][5] The original story in the Serbian media reported a statement by him that he had obtained his doctorate studying under the "famous professor Stephen Wood of the London School of Economics.