Engjellushe Morina is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is based at ECFR’s Berlin office. Engjellushe bring experience of research on, and fieldwork in, the Western Balkans, Euro-Atlantic integration, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, violent extremism, and dialogue and mediation. Prior to joining ECFR, she developed and led collaborative research projects on violent extremism and managed other initiatives such ...

Nikola Dimitrov is a Macedonian diplomat, think tanker and activist politician, committed to a democratic Western Balkans governed by the rule of law and the completion of the EU. After serving as National security adviser to late President Trajkovski in the trying crisis in 2001, he was appointed as ambassador to the US, when he also became the chief negotiator on the name issue with Greece. He also served ...

Prof. Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, PhD (Cantab), is Associate Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, and Senior Research Fellow & Head of the South-East Europe Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He's a member of the Europe's Futures Fellows alumni network of the Institute for Human Sciences- Vienna and the Erste Foundation as well as a member of ...

Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. Her current research focuses on the relationship between domestic politics and Europe’s global role. She has researched and published widely for academia, think tanks, and the international press on issues relating to European politics and international relations, especially on the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, EU enlargement, ...

Adnan Ćerimagić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is Senior Analyst for the Western Balkans at a think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI) and is researching EU policy towards the region. Before joining ESI in August 2013, Adnan worked at a Foreign Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and Brussels. He also worked for the Secretariat of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and worked for the European Training and Research ...

Dr. Florent Marciacq, PhD is deputy secretary general of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ), an intergovernmental organisation based in Vienna and related to the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri). He is also co-director of the Observatoire des Balkans at the Fondation Jean Jaurès in Paris and Senior Fellow at the Centre international de formation européenne in Berlin and Nice. Florent Marciacq is a cofounder and ...

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schumacher is Professor of European Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He is also Chairholder of the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe (Natolin campus) Warsaw, Poland. Prof. Schumacher was awarded several fellowships and grants, inter alia, by Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, the European Commission, and the European University Institute, and has authored more ...

Dr. Johanna Deimel received her Dr. rer. pol. in Political Sciences, Slavonic Studies and Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She has been an independent analyst for Southeast Europe and the Western Balkans since March 2019. Deimel was Deputy Director of the Southeast Europe Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, SOG) from 1998 until March 2019. From February until October 2008, she served as Executive Officer / Chief of Staff at the International ...

Dr. Karsten Friis is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Security and Defence Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He holds a PhD from the University of Groningen, a Cand. Polit from University of Oslo and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining NUPI in 2007, he was Political Adviser at the OSCE Mission ...