Predrag Petrović

Predrag Petrović is the Research Director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, where he has been working since 2006. During his career, he has focused on new and inadequately researched topics such as privatizing security, intelligence service reform, and violent extremism. His desire to get to the heart of the matter has led him to explore formal and informal relationships between security and political power. His current primary interest is the state capture phenomenon and the security sector’s role in this process. He is the author of several papers on these topics, and his articles have been published in Serbian and international publications.

Publisher Roman and Littlefield included Predrag’s case study on the reform of Serbia’s security intelligence in a textbook that analyses the security services of over 30 European countries. He has also delivered trainings and lectures on security sector oversight, intelligence reform, privatizing security and violent extremism to oversight bodies, faculty students, Western Balkans’ NGOs and think tanks, and has also contributed to various legislative processes.

Predrag obtained PhD at the Faculty of Political Sciences on intelligence reform in Serbia. His MPhil thesis on “Privatisation of Security in the Weak States: The Case of Serbia” was published as a monograph and adopted as recommended literature in security studies courses.