Luka is a research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. Prior to this he had spent nine years working at the Secretariat of the Serbian Ombudsman’s Office. In 2018 he worked at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He has been a member of the BCSP Executive Board since February 2019, and in January 2024 ...

From 2007 until 2015, Gorana worked at the BCSP, first as the office coordinator and then as a researcher and coordinator for networking. She continued her career as an advisor on international projects researching the social sciences and civil society in Serbia. She has been the Vice-President of the BCSP Executive Board since February 2019. She is the author and editor of several analyses and policy papers in the ...

Maksim Samorukov is a fellow at the Carnegie Europe, specializing in Russia’s relations with the states of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. From 2015 – 2022 he was a fellow at Carnegie Moscow Center based in Russia until the Center was closed down by the Russian authorities. Before joining Carnegie in 2015, Samorukov worked in the Russian independent media, including Slon.ru website, as an international correspondent and columnist, covering ...

Đorđe Blagojević has been a member of BCSP team since September 2022 as a legal assosiate for the HR activities and coordination of research projects. He completed undergraduate and master studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, focusing on International public law on his master studies and doing his master thesis on the subject of Internation humanitarian law. He worked three years as a legal trainee at ...

Dragana has worked at the BCSP finance department since 2007. During her time at the BCSP, Dragana has been the financial coordinator of a number of multi-year and regional projects as part of which she has worked with numerous organisations from Serbia, the Western Balkans and the European Union. She is a graduate of the Gymnasium School of Sremska Mitrovica.

Kristina Đurić is an Associate Fellow at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. Kristina is also engaged as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Disarmament and Mine Action Department at Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) in Oslo. Kristina’s work focuses mainly on Ethnonational Conflicts, Policy, Gender and Diversity and spans across the South-East Europe, Middle East, and Central Asia. Kristina’s experience ranges from security, democratisation, and good governance, to disarmament, ...

Milica Starinac was part of the 26th generation of interns at the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, and in February 2023 she joined the team as a junior researcher. Her research areas include defence, organized crime and parliamentary oversight of the security sector, while during her internship she worked on a project on extremism. Other topics of her interest are regional relations, international organizations and gender equality. She holds ...

Ivana Ranković has joined the BCSP team in September 2022 after previously completing her internship at the organisation. As a researcher, she specialises in international politics and security with a regional focus on the Western Balkans. Her work encompasses analysing foreign influences in the Western Balkans, in the context of EU enlargement dynamics, and regional defence policies.In addition to her research role, Ivana serves as a project manager, as ...

Gorana Pebić joined the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy in 2021 as an intern. After completing her internship, she became a Junior Researcher in September 2022, was promoted to Researcher in January 2024, and since June 2025 has been working as a Project Manager, while also coordinating the BCSP internship programme for nearly three years. She is a political scientist and researcher currently pursuing a master’s degree in Culture ...