Independent senior practice across measurement, evidence, and AI assessment.
Now focused on his own firms - cofounder of AdriaMont Consulting, and founder and director of the Center for Psychology and Psychology Me Ltd - advising on assessment validity and the EU AI Act, serving as an independent expert witness, and partnering on Horizon Europe research consortia. His UNESCO consultancy concluded on 30 June 2026.
Dr. Miloš Kankaraš builds and leads across a connected ecosystem. AdriaMont Consulting is the parent B2B consultancy he cofounded with Ana Kankaraš, where he leads the research, assessment, and evaluation practice. The Center for Psychology, its applied research hub, and the AdriaMont Institute are subsidiary brands he directs; Psychology.me is the applied assessment hub he founded. Together they form complementary layers: senior consulting, applied and cross-cultural measurement research, and a platform that delivers validated assessment at scale.
B2B consultancy and technical assistance
AdriaMont Consulting
Founder-led B2B consultancy in Podgorica, cofounded with Ana Kankaraš. It helps growing companies build stronger operating systems and better people decisions, and brings research, assessment, and evaluation expertise to institutions, programmes, and consortia.
Cofounder (research, assessment and evaluation practice)
Operational growth and people-and-performance for companies
Research, evaluation, and measurement for institutions and IO programmes
EU, UN, World Bank, UNICEF, OECD, and foundation-facing bids
Deep knowledge of the science and policy domains - psychology, education, social policy, gender equality, wellbeing, and sustainability - paired with the research methods, psychometrics, quantitative analysis, and evaluation expertise to measure them well.
Substantive domains
The fields the work addresses
The science and policy domains where the questions live - from psychology and education through gender equality, wellbeing, and sustainability.
Psychology
Psychological science across skills, personality, cognition, and development.
Social and emotional learning, personality psychology, creativity, metacognition, intelligence, and early childhood development, from conceptual frameworks to highly cited empirical work.
Co-led and contributed to the design, psychometric framework, cross-country delivery, and reporting of the first large-scale international assessment of social and emotional skills.
UNESCO consultancy focused on pilot study coordination, multi-language instruments, diagnostic toolkit development, analysis, reporting, and guidance materials. Concluded 30 June 2026.
UNESCO MGIEP Educational Program Evaluation Studies
2024
Led evaluation architecture and analysis across 20+ MGIEP educational program studies, including online courses, in-person workshops, and hybrid programs, with 150+ assessment scales and 1,000+ assessment questions implemented, and connected this work to the published UNESCO MGIEP Evaluation Research Framework.
Past flagshipPolicy report, survey analysis, and job-quality research
Eurofound Workplace Practices and Future of Work
Eurofound period
Eurofound research on workplace practices, organizational patterns, performance, well-being, job quality, and work organisation in Europe, drawing on European Company Survey evidence and feeding into European policy reporting on the future of work.
Past flagshipGender equality, VAWG, and policy research series
Minderoo Foundation Gender Equality and VAWG Research
Minderoo period
Produced five research works for Minderoo Foundation on gender equality and violence against women and girls, including four published policy research reports on gender equality frameworks, global empirical evidence, VAWG intervention effectiveness, and domestic violence intervention effectiveness, plus a fifth research work on domestic violence in Australia.
Past flagshipPolicy research program and working paper
Cedefop Workplace Learning Program
2020 to 2021
Led policy research on workplace learning using the 2019 European Company Survey evidence base, resulting in the Cedefop working paper Workplace Learning: Determinants and Consequences.
CedefopWorkplace learningPolicy researchEuropean Company Survey
Past flagshipUniversity research, PhD, and lecturing
Tilburg University Research and Teaching
2006 to 2014
University researcher and lecturer in cross-cultural methodology, psychometrics, latent class analysis, and comparative survey research, including the PhD thesis, book chapter, PISA comparability article, and a broader cluster of measurement-equivalence publications.
Tilburg UniversityPhDLecturingMeasurement equivalenceLatent class analysis
Validated psychological and psychometric testing for individuals and organisations across employee selection and HR, clinical and psychodiagnostic assessment, and specialist screening.
AdriaMont Consulting Advisory and Applied Measurement
Current
Two complementary practices in one firm: operational design and people-and-performance for companies, and research, assessment, and evaluation for institutions and programmes. Illustrative engagements include organisational design and job classification for Montenegrin SMEs, candidate screening for a construction-sector employer, and psychometric instruments and training for a public substance-use rehabilitation institution.
AdriaMont's applied research and assessment hub. Currently running a cross-national study that tests a new framework and objective instrument for measuring AI literacy, establishing the measurement invariance and cross-cultural comparability that credible AI-literacy assessment requires.
Center for PsychologyAI literacyMeasurement invarianceCross-cultural
A named senior psychometrician on retainer to ed-tech, HR-tech, and assessment vendors - instrument and bias review, validity-claim sign-off, and a standing validity dossier for enterprise procurement, investor diligence, and EU AI Act documented-validity expectations. Delivered through AdriaMont Consulting.
Independent written opinions and expert testimony on whether selection and assessment tools, including AI-based hiring, are valid and function equivalently across protected groups: test validity, adverse impact and differential item functioning, measurement invariance, and algorithmic fairness.
AdriaMont Consulting as a research and measurement partner in Horizon Europe and internationally-funded consortia: policy research, skills and competence frameworks, framework development, research design, instrument development, psychometrics, survey design, data analysis, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation.
A research-facing Psychology.me offer for labs and applied teams that need validated instruments, participant reports, and exports to SPSS, R, Mplus, and CSV.
A public record of psychology, research, policy, and applied measurement.
Psychology publications, policy reports, policy research, academic papers, books, chapters, evaluation frameworks, and related outputs with DOI, institutional, and public profile links where available.
Advisory, evaluation, and product work for evidence-heavy problems.
The strongest service lines combine senior methodological expertise with actual implementation capacity across AdriaMont, Psychology.me, AdriaMont Institute, startup collaboration, and owned platform growth.
Theory of change, results frameworks, indicators, instruments, baseline and endline studies, impact analysis, and publication-ready evaluation reports, grounded in 20+ MGIEP evaluation studies and Minderoo FRF impact-measurement work.
