Dr. Ivor Chipkin is the Director of the Government and Public Policy Think Tank, based in Johannesburg. He was the founder and director of the Public Affairs Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town for ten years before that. Chipkin helped pioneer the study of organisations and institutions in South Africa and has published widely on questions of government, administration and the ...

Edward P. Joseph is an academic, non-profit leader, foreign policy analyst, and field practitioner specializing in conflict management. In his dozen years in the Balkans, Edward served during the wars in each conflict afflicted country (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia). He has been deployed on shorter missions as well in Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. His testimony at the Hague Tribunal has been cited as instrumental in a landmark ...

Goran Buldioski is Director of Program for Open Society–Europe and Central Asia. Buldioski’s areas of expertise include democratic transition, civil society, citizen participation, and effective government in Europe, notably Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Before joining the Open Society Foundations, he worked for the Council of Europe, the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation, and the National Youth Council of Macedonia. Buldioski’s publications on democracy, think tanks, ...

Dr. Hannes Swoboda is the President of WIIW – Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, the President of Institute for International Peace (Vienna). He is also leading figure if several other organisations such as the Sir Peter Ustinov Institute, University for Applied Science FH Campus Wien, as well as the Vienna Center for Architecture. From 1972 to 1994, Dr. Swoboda was engaged in Viennese politics for his SPÖ party. ...

Dr. Amna Guellali is Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Previously, she was a Senior Tunisia and Algeria researcher at Human Rights Watch, where she investigated human rights abuses in both countries. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Guellali worked as an analyst at the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague and as Senior Researcher at the department ...

Dr. Srdjan Cvijic is the president of the International Advisory Committee of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. Before joining BCSP Team, he was a Senior Policy Officer at the Europe and Eurasia Program of the Open Society Foundations. He is a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group and a Fellow of the Europe’s Futures Program of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Dr. Cvijic ...

Rodoljub Šabić is a lawyer with an LLM degree, having chosen to pursue a career as an attorney-at-law. During a period of 14 years, from December 2004 to December 2018, he served as the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Serbia. For many years he was the managing partner of a Belgrade-based law firm, which had a number of lawyers and ...

Sonja is an experienced researcher and practitioner of security sector governance and conflict-transformation and an organizational consultant. From December 2006 to October 2019, she led the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) as its Director, during which time she helped transform it from an advocacy NGO into a specialised think tank leading research of security sector public oversight in the Balkans. Under her leadership, BCSP became the only Western ...

Filip Ejdus is an Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. In his academic research, he studies how identity, memory, emotions and rationality affect security policy and international interventions. The geographic focus of his interests are the Western Balkans, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. He has published extensively in academic journals in the fields of political science, international relations ...