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6th BELGRADE NATO WEEKPalace of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia – November 8-9, 2018

Speakers BiographiesIvica Dačić First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign AffairsBorn in 1966, Prizren. He received his BA degree from the School of Political Science, University of Belgrade.He served on the Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He chaired his party’s Parliamentary Group in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and in the Assembly of the Federal Republic of

Yugoslavia. From 1992 to 2004 he was delegate in the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 2004 to present.He was appointed Minister of Information in the so-called transitional Government of the Republic of Serbia, October 2000 – January 2001. He became the Leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia in December 2006. He was the President of the Basketball Club Partizan Belgrade and Vice President of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee.First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, July 2008 – July 2012. He was Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, July 2012 – April 2014.On 27 April 2014, he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.Recipient of The Best European award in 2009.Speaks English and Russian. Married, two children.

Robert PszczelSenior Officer for Russia and the Western Balkans, Public Diplomacy Division (PDD), NATO HQ.In 1987, he received a Master degree in Political Science at the University of Warsaw (major in International Relations). He worked as a journalist for the newspaper SM (Warsaw). In 1990-1993. - Expert in the Department of European institutions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. From 1993 to 1997 he served as First Secretary of the Mission of Poland to NATO and WEU in Brussels. From 1997 to 1999. - Political Advisor to the Mission of Poland to NATO, a spokesman for the mission. Since December 1999 in various positions in NATO, as representative to work with the media, and later a senior representative to work with the media and is responsible for projects in the field of public diplomacy related to Poland in the Office of Public Diplomacy, NATO headquarters. From 2010 to 2015 he was Head of NATO information office in Moscow (NIO).

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Lieutenant General Milan MojsilovićLieutenant General Milan Mojsilović commenced his rich military career in 1986 as a soldier serving a compulsory military service at the School of Reserve Officers of Armoured and Mechanized Units of the Yugoslav People’s Army.He has advanced from the lowest soldiers rank to the rank of Lieutenant General of the Serbian Armed Forces. He performed duties from platoon leader to the commander of a service of the Serbian Armed Forces, mainly on command and operational posts in the

commands and units.He graduated from the Military Academy – Armoured and Mechanized Units, and later from the Command and Staff Course and the National Defence School in Belgrade. Of the most important international courses, he completed the four-month executive program at the European College of Security Studies.He served in Banja Luka, Vršac, Kruševac, Pančevo, Belgrade, Vranje, Prokuplje, Kragujevac and Niš.He served as Chief of the Operations Section of the SAF Operating Forces Command, as Deputy Commander of Joint Operations Command of the General Staff as well as Army Commander.From 2013 to 2017 he served as the Head of the Military Representative Office in the Mission of the Republic of Serbia to NATO. Prior to his appointment as Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, he served from 2017 to 2018 as Assistant Defence Minister for Defence Policy.Lieutenant General Milan Mojsilović is married to Slavica. They have a son, a daughter-in-law and a grandchild. He is fond of alpine skiing, fishing and theater.He is fluent in Russian and English.

Goran MatićEducation and year graduated from schools: - Doctor’s degree in criminal law, Law Faculty, Belgrade University, 2013.Prior posts and year of duty: - Assistant professor at Union-Nikola Tesla University, Belgrade (academic areas: security and law), 2014 - till present; Director, Office of National Security Council and Classified Information Protection (NSA), 2009 - till present; - Military lawyer, Intelligence - Security Department, Ministry of Defense, 2005 - 2009; - Expert associate, Criminal Department of Supreme Military Court, 2002 - 2005; - Military lawyer, Legal Department, Supreme Headquarters of Serbian Armed Forces, 1999 – 2001;Significant accomplishments: - Drafting of Classified Information Law (2009) as MoD representative in Government Commission tasked with its elaboration; - Information security expert witness

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appointed by Ministry of Justice; - Member of Working Group tasked with drafting of National Security Strategy, Defense Strategy and National Strategy for Prevention and Countering of Terrorism; - Member of George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Alumni Association

Vladimir MarinkovićMr. Marinkovic is the Vice President of the National Assembly of Republic of Serbia. Vladimir Marinkovic, Economic Science PhD, has the title of research fellow at the Institute of Agricultural Economics, is an associate professor at the John Naisbitt University and associate professor at the Independent University of Banja Luka. Author of a university textbook, two monographs and more than 80

scientific and expert papers in relevant domestic and foreign journals on economy, management and entrepreneurship. Winner of several awards and the prestigious recognition - Plaque for contributions to trade-unionism in Europe awarded by the European Police Union and Man of the Year award for political idea awarded by the journal The Man, NALED’s Arrow for contributions to the improvement of the business environment in the Republic of Serbia and medal of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta awarded to him by the Grand Master Fra Matthew Festing.Chairman of the Oversight Committee of the Association of Economists of Belgrade and member of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) from Geneva.Vice-Chairman of the Green Serbia Chamber of Commerce and member of the Executive Board of the Regional Network of Parliamentary Committees on Economy, Finance and European Integration of Western Balkans.Was Secretary General of the Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Serbia and Montenegro, deputy director of the Institute for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Since May 2012, MP at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. 2014-2016 National Assembly Deputy Speaker, member of the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy, member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, deputy member of the Committee on Finance, State Budget and Control of Public Spending, Head of the NARS Economic Caucus, Chair of the NARS Parliamentary Group for Open Parliament, Chair of the Subcommittee for the Consideration of Reports on Audits Conducted by the State Audit Institution, Head of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.Member of the presidium of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia and Chairman of the Economy Board of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia.Speaks English and German.

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Arne Sannes BjørnstadHe joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as desk officer (legal affairs) in the Shipping Department in 1990. After postings to Ankara (1994- 97), Rabat (1997) and Paris (1998-2001), he was Coordinator for Norway’s Foreign Policy and Justice/Home Affairs cooperation with the European Union 2001-2003. From February 2003 through September 2006 he was Senior Adviser at the Office of the Prime Minister and secretary to the Government Security Council. Minister Counsellor for European and Economic Affairs at the Norwegian embassy in London 2006-08, then Deputy Head of Mission in London 2008-11. Senior Adviser attached to the Foreign Service Control Unit from 2011, becoming Inspector General of the Foreign Service in 2013.Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of Serbia from September 2015, to the republic of Montenegro from November 2015 and Macedonia from December 2015.

Dominik JankowskiDominik P. Jankowski is a security policy expert, diplomat, think-tanker and social media aficionado. Currently he serves as Political Adviser and Head of the Political Section at the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Poland to NATO. Previously he served as Head of the OSCE and Eastern Security Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Head of the International Analyses Division at the National Security Bureau of the Republic of Poland as well as Senior Expert at the J5-Strategic

Planning Directorate of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. He is an experienced StratCom project manager. Among others, in 2016 he was managing the Twitter campaign of the #NATOSummit #Warsaw.He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland), the National Defense University in Warsaw (Poland) and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (Austria). His publications appeared in the most renowned think-tanks in 20 countries in the world.

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Sven SakkovDirector of the International Centre for Defence and Security ICDS.International Centre for Defence and Security is a foreign affairs and defence think tank based in Tallinn, Estonia. Besides conducting wide-ranging research ICDS is also organising Lennart Meri Conference, Annual Baltic Conference on Defence (ABCD), publishing monthly “Diplomaatia” magazine and running Estonian National Defence Course.Before joining ICDS Sven Sakkov served for 2 years as the director of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOOE), an international knowledge hub specialising in research, training and exercises in the areas of technology, strategy, operations and law.Between 2008 and 2015 Sakkov served as an undersecretary for defence policy (policy director) of the Ministry of Defence of Estonia. During his tenure as a policy director Sven Sakkov was responsible for policy planning, threat assessments, NATO and EU policy, international cooperation and arms control. He was an Estonian representative to the NATO’s Senior Officials’ Group and High Level Group.Previously he had served at the Estonian Embassy in Washington and Estonian Mission to NATO, as national security and defence advisor to the President of Estonia and as the director of Policy Planning of MOD.Sven Sakkov has studied at the Royal College of Defence Studies (course of 2011-12), University of Cambridge (M.Phil. in international relations) and University of Tartu (B.A. cum laude in history).He is a member of NATO CCDCOE Advisory Board.

Jeffrey GedminDr. Jeffrey Gedmin is editor-in-chief of The American Interest, print and online, a publication of politics, public policy, and international affairs. From 2015 to 2018, he was senior adviser at Blue Star Strategies. From 2011 to 2014, Gedmin was President and CEO of the London-based Legatum Institute. Prior to joining the Legatum Institute in early 2011, Gedmin served for four years as President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) headquartered in Prague. Before RFE/RL, Gedmin served as President and CEO of the

Aspen Institute in Berlin. Before that, he was Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C and Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative.He is the author/editor of several books, including The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany (1992). Gedmin also served as co-executive producer for two major PBS documentaries: “The Germans, Portrait of a New Nation” (1995), and “Spain’s 9/11 and the Challenge of Radical Islam in Europe” (2007). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several

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advisory boards, including: Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Masters Program, the Institute for State Effectiveness, the Kleptocracy Initiative (based at the Hudson Institute), the International Republican Institute’s Beacon Project, the Justice for Journalists Foundation, and the Tocqueville Conversations. Together with former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norm Eisen, Gedmin is co-chair of the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group.

H.E. Sem FabriziAmbassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia. Sem Fabrizi has been Ambassador of the European Union to Serbia since July 2017. From September 2013 to June 2017 he was Ambassador of the EU to Australia.An Italian career diplomat, he has served as an advisor on international relations to the President of the European Council in Brussels and to the Prime Minister of Italy in Rome.His earlier postings included Geneva, at the Italian Permanent Mission to the WTO and UN, and the Italian Embassy in Beijing. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome he has held positions in the EU Department and the Secretary General’s Office.He holds degrees in International Law and International Economy from “La Sapienza” University in Rome, and he has served as a lieutenant in the Italian Army.Sem has been awarded the honour of Cavaliere Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He is married to Rebecca, and they have three children.

H.E. Thomas SchiebAmbassador of the Germany in Serbia. Thomas Schieb earned his Masters’ degree in macroeconomics at the University of Gottingen, Germany, and then gained a diploma from the Diplomatic Academy in Bonn.From 1992 to 1994 he was a correspondent at the Special Staff of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Bosnia, and in 1996 served as the second secretary of the German Embassy in Sarajevo.

From 1996 to 1998 he was the first secretary in the Department of Culture and Media at the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and then, until 1999, served as a correspondent for South Africa in Bonn.From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Schieb held the position of a correspondent of the Department for Basic Issues of Defence and Security Policy in Berlin, and then, until 2005, served as an advisor to the Political Department of the Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels.From 2005 to 2009 he held the function of deputy chief of the EU Department in Berlin, and then, until 2011, as spokesmen of the Embassy of Germany in London, UK.

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For the next three years, until 2014, Mr. Schieb was Chief of the Department for the EU at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin.He arrived in Serbia from the position of the envoy and political coordinator at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, U.S.

Adam ReichardtEditor in Chief of the New East Europe, Poland.Adam Reichardt is the Editor-in-Chief of New Eastern Europe – a bimonthly magazine dedicated to issues relating to Eastern Europe. He also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Central European Journal of International and Strategic Studies (CEJISS) and a member of the executive team of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions project – a research project undertaken by the College of Europe, Natolin campus in Warsaw. Mr Reichardt spent eight years in public policy in Washington DC as well as a large portion of his studies in Krakow, Poland, where he now permanently resides. He has an MA in Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management from the George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. His research interests include the development of public policies in Central and Eastern Europe (with a particular focus on decentralization) as well as understanding reform efforts of the transition. He is also interested in security issues, transatlantic relations and European foreign policy, particularly the EU’s Eastern Partnership programme. Mr Reichardt has extensive experience working on projects in a variety of roles. He has given lectures and participated in various academies and summer schools including, among others, the Solidarity Academy in Gdańsk, The European Values academy in Chernivtsi, Ukraine and the Jozsef Antall Summer School in Budapest. He most recently concluded a research study for the Levan Mikeladze Foundation on the lessons learnt from Poland’s accession to NATO and the European Union which could be useful for Georgia’s pro-West policies. The results of the study will be presented in Tbilisi in December 2018.

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Iulia-Sabina JojaProfessional Experience: Post-doc Fellow of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Germany (2018-2019) Bundeswehr Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften, Potsdam University – Research on German Strategic Culture and its Impact on European Strategic Culture.Fellow of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Germany (2018-2019) Bundeswehr Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften, Potsdam University – Research on German Strategic Culture and its

Impact on European Strategic Culture. Visiting Lecturer (2017-2018) at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.Ms. Joja was included in project management and consultancy from 2016 to 2018 in: Global Focus and German Marshal Fund project on Russian propaganda assessment in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria and Georgia.

Giampaolo di PaolaFormer chief of Defence of Italy, former chairman NATO military committee, former minister of Defence of Italy member of the steering committee of GLOBSEC study on NATO Adaptation Initiative.Born in 1944, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola joined the Italian Navy in 1963 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1966. Soon after the graduation in 1967 he attended the Submarine School and underwent fleet training onboard submarines.He served in junior officer appointments in conventional submarines and commanded the submarines “Cappellini” (1974-75) and “Sauro” (1980-81).In 1981 he attended the NATO Defense College in Rome. From 1981 to 1984 Giampaolo Di Paola served as Anti Submarine Warfare and Undersea Warfare Program Officer, Long Term Planning Branch, in the Supreme Allied Command Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia (USA).In 1984 he assumed command of the frigate “Grecale”. Thereafter, in 1986, he was appointed to the Navy Staff in Rome as Plans and Programs Branch Chief in the Directorate of General and Financial Planning.From 1989 to 1990, as a Captain, he commanded the aircraft carrier “Garibaldi”. At the end of 1990 he returned to the Navy Staff and was appointed as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff (1990-91), then as Chief of Naval Plans and Policy Branch (1991-92), and finally as Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations (1993-94). During this period the Italian Navy was involved in supporting NATO arms embargo operations (Operation Sharp Guard) to contain the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, and in the U.N. operation Restore Hope in Somalia.With the rank of Rear Admiral (lower half) in 1994 he was assigned to the Defence Staff in the

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Ministry of Defence where he became Chief of the Directorate of Defence Policy (1994-98). In this position he took active part as far as the planning of the italian contribution to the NATO effort for the stabilization of the Balkans and for the italian-led Operation in support of Albania in 1997. As Polmil Advisor to the Minister of Defence and to the Italian Chod he was actively engaged in NATO PfP initiative and in the Mediterranean Dialogue. He was also the italian representative to the HLG on nuclear and proliferation issues.From 1998 to 2001, with the rank of Rear Admiral, he assumed the position of Chief of the Cabinet Office of the Ministry of Defence. On the 1st of January 1999 he was promoted Vice Admiral. In this position he took active part in supporting the political decision making for the italian contribution to the NATO initiative in Kosovo, the NATO enlargement process and outreach policy and in the development of the ESDP and NATO-EU relationship.In March 2001 he was appointed Secretary General of Defence / National Armaments Director. In this capacity he held national responsibility for major developments and procurements programmes such as AGS, ALTBMD, NATO Airlift Capability, NATO SATCOM Post 2000, Meads ,Eurofigther, JSF, SKY.MED Cosmos,VTLM,,Futuresoldier 2000,netcentric Brigade, Predator,Horizon and FREMM Frigates and others.He was promoted Admiral on 10 March 2004 on becoming Chief of Defence. In this capacity he had the overall responsibility for the policy and planning of the Italian Armed Forces and - as CINCFOR – he did hold planning and command responsibility for Italian Forces participation in NATO, EU and Coalition operations conducted in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Pakistan and in the United Nations Operation in Lebanon.On 27 June 2008, he became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee,Nato top senior military Post that he held until 16 nov 2011. During this tenet he was responsible for managing and coordinating nato military operations in Afghanistan, The Balkans, and Libia.On 18 Nov 2011 he was appointed Minister of Defence of Italy under Government Monti, position that he held until 26 April 2013. Under his tenet the Italian Parliament approved the Law of reform and reorganization of the Italian Military. Admiral Di Paola holds a degree in Strategic and Military Sciences and an “ad honorem” Masters degree in Sciences. His military decorations and awards include the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, Meritorious Service Medal for distinguished military service, Commander of Legion of Merit (USA), Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Legion d’Honneur (FR), Commandeur de l’Ordre National du merite (FR), Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Don Enrico (PO), Grand Officer of military virtue with war insignia (RO), UN Medal for UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo.Admiral Di Paola is married to Roberta and they have two daughters. He speaks fluently English, French and Spanish. His interests include fine arts, literature and classical music, the practice of skiing and mountain climbing.

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Stefano StefaniniAmbassador Stefano Stefanini is a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He has been diplomatic adviser to the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, Italian permanent representative at NATO and deputy chief of mission at the Italian Embassy in Washington. He had previously served at the United Nations in New York and Moscow. He began his diplomatic career as consul in Perth, Western Australia.

Throughout his career, Ambassador Stefanini has developed a substantial expertise in transatlantic affairs, international security, defense capabilities, and the defense industry, as well as in Western and European relations with Russia.Posted in Moscow in the early ‘90s, Ambassador Stefanini experienced the economic and political transition from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation. He then deepened his understanding of US-European relations while at the Embassy of Italy in Washington from 1993 to 1998 as a counselor on political and military affairs, where he followed and advised on US foreign policy and specialized in the Balkans, European Security and NATO, and US-Russia relations.As ambassador of Italy to NATO from 2007 to 2010, Ambassador Stefanini contributed to the drafting of NATO’s New Strategic Concept, the shaping of NATO’s “comprehensive approach” in Afghanistan, the enlargement and partnership policy, the military structure review, and the advancement of missile defense. He was actively involved in the NATO-Russia Council.From December 2010 to July 2013, Ambassador Stefanini served as a diplomatic adviser to the President of Italy, providing analysis of international and security affairs and spearheading presidential visits to Beijing, Jerusalem, Washington, Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, New York, and other strategically important cities.Ambassador Stefanini is Vice Chairman of OTO Melara, a Finmeccanica defense company and a consultant to the Podesta Group, Washington, DC.Ambassador Stefanini earned his law degree from the University of Pisa and his master’s degree from the Institute for International Political Studies in Milan. He served as lieutenant in the alpine corps of the Italian army. He is a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and has received honors from several foreign governments, including France, Brazil, Germany, and South Korea.

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Edward P. JosephHe brings a dozen years of war-time and post-war field experience to his analysis of the Balkans. Edward served during the wars in each conflict-afflicted country, including nearly throughout the war in Bosnia-Herzevonia, as well as in neighboring Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia. His conflict assignments have taken him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Haiti as well. Highlights include:Bosnia: In July, 1995 – contemporaneous with the massacres in neighboring Srebrenica – Edward and one UN colleague coordinated the evacuation of the fallen ‘safe area’ of Zepa. This required face-to-face dealings with Serb commander Ratko Mladic and his high command. Edward has twice testified at the Hague Tribunal in associated prosecutions.Kosovo: In April, 2012, as the US-nominated Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, one of the largest democracy and human rights missions in the world, Edward negotiated an end to a rapidly brewing, potentially violent confrontation between Belgrade and Pristina. His eleventh-hour role was cited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and OSCE Secretary-General Lamberto Zannier. Both Serbia and Kosovo highly praised the unique, last-minute OSCE role.Pakistan: In Peshawar on December 27th, 2007, Edward held the last international meeting with Benazir Bhutto, an intensive, 90-minute discussion on her anxieties about the upcoming elections.Afghanistan: In 2008-9, Edward was part of a three-person expert team that evaluated USAID’s largest program. The mission took the team to the country’s four corners, including Kandahar.Haiti: Over 2005-6, Edward led the USAID-funded election observation mission; after the devastating earthquake in 2010, Edward led InterAction’s precedent setting NGO coordination mission.A foreign policy analyst and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Edward has been published in virtually all major outlets. His Foreign Affairs article, ‘The Balkans, Interrupted’ was selected as one of ‘The Best of 2015.’ He is currently Executive Director of the National Council on US-Libya Relations.Edward earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law, and his B.A. and M.A., respectively, from Johns Hopkins University, and its School of Advanced International Studies. Trained as a helicopter pilot in the Army Reserve, Edward is a veteran, who deployed with NATO IFOR in Bosnia. He speaks Croatian / Serbian, and French, Italian and Spanish.

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Jelena MilicDirector, Chairman of the Governing Board of Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies.Jelena Milic is among the most influential political analysts in Serbia and the Western Balkans region.In December 2016 she was elected as one of the POLITICO 28 Most influential People in the annual POLITICO 28 list of people shaking and shaping the world, together with the mayor of London Sadiq

Khan, the CEO of Ryanair Michael O’Leary, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Federica Mogherini, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and founder and president of the Open Society Foundation George Soros.The key areas of her expertise and interest are: Transatlantic relations; US foreign politics; NATO affairs; EU affairs, NATO, policies of the EU and its member states towards South East Europe and Russia; Serbian foreign and security policies with a special focus on relations with NATO; Russian influence in the Western Balkans and Europe; Transitional justice and security sector reform; Contemporary social-liberalism; Democratic deficit of multiculturalism.She is the leading researcher and author of CEAS reports, among which are most prominent: “Basic Instinct: The Case for More NATO in The Western Balkans” published in September 2017 and “Eyes Wide Shut – Strengthening of the Russian Soft Power in Serbia – goals, instruments and effects” published in May 2016.The Serbia-Kosovo agreement and the reform of National security issued in the conference “Western Balkans - The futures of integration” published by the NATO Defense College Foundation in cooperation with the Italian Presidency of Council of the European Union and the Balkan Trust for Democracy in 2014;“The Elephant in the Room” - Incomplete Security Sector Reform in Serbia and its Consequences for Serbian Domestic and Foreign Policies, issued in Unfinished Business: The Western Balkans and the International Community, published by the Center for Transatlantic Relations Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University’ in Washington DC in 2012; The European Union and Serbia issued in European standards in Serbia - collection of papers, published by the Center for Democracy in 2009;Serbia: Between the walls issued in 1989-2009- 2029 / 20 Years ago, 20 Years ahead – Young Liberal Ideas published by Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in 2009.Milic served as the assistant to Goran Svilanović, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of SCG and Serbia, during his mandate in the Stability Pact for South East Europe Department for Democracy and Human Rights. Previously she worked as a political analyst and researcher for the International Crisis Group and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. In the late 1990s, Milic actively supported the work of the non-violent OTPOR movement, which significantly contributed to the fall of Slobodan Milosević’s regime. She was the regional producer of the film about OTPOR, Dictator

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Detection, which is part of the series A FORCE MORE POWERFUL, Produced by Steve York, Dalton Delan and Jack DuVall. She translated all films of the series into BHS languages.She is an alumni of the Friedrich-Naumann- Stiftung International Academy for Leadership (IAF) and had internship with prestigious Paris based think-tank CERI of the Science Po University sponsored by the European Commission.Milic has a degree in Engineering Security Management from Union Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade. She is currently finishing her master’s thesis on NATO’s Crisis management system and emergency planning policies and structures.

Bojan KlačarBojan Klačar is the executive director of Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID), civil society and research organization from Belgrade. He is a member of CeSID since 2008, when he started working as an elections expert. From 2006 to 2007, he was a teaching assistant at Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade. He has over 10 years of professional experience in public opinion polling and market research and over eight (8) years of experience in in project development, project management, including managing grant funded projects (USAID, IREX, European Union, British Embassy, OSCE etc.). He graduated at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade (2005), and is obtained Master’s Degree in communication (2009). He is PhD candidate in political communication with specific focus on framing theory, electoral campaigns and political advertising. He is the editor / author of several journals / articles in the field of political context in Serbia and elections, campaign finance, electoral administration, political corruption and accountability. His work and thoughts have also been published extensively in academic journals (Srpska politička misao, Godišnjak, Politički život) as well as various magazines and portals (Blic, Nedeljnik, Politika, Balkan Insight).

James AppathuraiJames Appathurai is the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia.February 2004 to November 2010 - NATO SpokespersonMay 1998 to January 2004 - Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer, Policy Planning and Speechwriting Section, Political Affairs Division NATO

August 1994 – May 1998 - Policy Officer, Department of National Defence, OttawaMarch 1993 – August 1994 - Editorial Assistant, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, TorontoEducation: University of Amsterdam, Department of International Relations, Amsterdam; Master of International Relations (cum laude), February 1993; University of Toronto, Departments of Political

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Science and History, Toronto; Bachelor of Arts (Honours), September 1991.Publications: 25+ articles and book chapters on security issues, including on NATO, peacekeeping, Euro-Atlantic security, Canada, and regional security cooperation.

Gordon DuguidGordon Duguid, a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, holds the State Department Chair at the National Intelligence University in Bethesda. Maryland. His most recent overseas assignment was in 2018 as Chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy to Montenegro. From 2016-2017, Duguid served as the Senior Advisor for Bosnia in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. During his 28-year career, Duguid has served overseas as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia as well as at the U.S. Mission to NATO and U.S. Embassies to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Burundi, and India. Duguid’s Washington assignments were as Director of Foreign Press Centers and as the Secretary of the Counter-Terrorism Committee at the Organization of American States.Duguid has received five State Department Superior Honor Awards, numerous Meritorious and Group Honor Awards, and a U.S. NATO Commendation Award. He speaks French and Serbian.

Andrew A. Michta, Ph.D.Dean, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.Andrew A. Michta holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise are international security, NATO, and European politics and security, with a special focus on Central Europe and the Baltic States.Prior to coming to the Marshall Center he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, an Adjunct Fellow

at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Europe Program) and an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 1988-2015 he was the M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. From 2013-14, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C. where he focused on defense programming. From 2011–13, he was a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) and the founding director of the GMFUS Warsaw office. From 2009-10, he was a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He served as Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar at the Marshall Center from 2005-09. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center, and a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University.

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He is a regular contributor for the column “On Europe and Security”, in The American Interest, a non-partisan journal devoted to the broad theme of “America in the world”. He is also a regular contributor Carnegie Europe’s flagship blog “Strategic Europe”, where he writes on transatlantic relations, security and defense issues. His books include The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); America’s New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO, editor and contributor, (The University of Washington Press, 1999); The Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism (St. Martin’s Press, 1997); Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence (St. Martin’s Press, 1995), co-author and co-editor w/Ilya Prizel; The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe (Praeger Publishers, 1994); Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform (St. Martin’s Press and Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1992), co-editor and contributor w/Ilya Prizel; East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact: Security Dilemmas in the 1990s (Greenwood Press, 1992); and Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944-1988 (Hoover Press, 1990).His most recent book with Paal Hilde, The Future of NATO: Regional Defense and Global Security was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014. Dr. Michta is fluent in Polish and Russian and proficient in German and French.

Ivan VejvodaBefore joining the IWM as a Permanent Fellow in 2017, where he heads the Europe’s Futures project, Ivan Vejvoda was Senior Vice President for Programs at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States. From 2003 until 2010, he served in Belgrade as Executive Director of GMF’s Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions in South-Eastern Europe. Vejvoda came to GMF in 2003 after distinguished service in the Serbian government as a senior advisor on foreign policy and European integration to Prime Ministers Zoran Djindjic and Zoran Zivkovic. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director of the Belgrade-based Fund for an Open Society from 1998 to 2002. During the mid-1990s, Vejvoda held various academic posts in the United States and the U.K., including at Smith College in Massachusetts and Macalester College in Minnesota, and the University of Sussex in England. Vejvoda was a key figure in the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia during the 1990s, and has published widely on the subjects of political theory, democratic transition, totalitarianism, and European Union . Furthermore, he is a member of the Serbian PEN Club. Vejvoda has been awarded the French National Order of Merit in the rank of Officer (2006) and the Order of the Italian Star of Solidarity, rank of Commendatore (2007).

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Tanja MiščevićAs Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Ms. Miščevic teaches International Organizations, UN System, EU Enlargement Policy and History of European Integration. She lectured as a Visiting Professor at the Military Academy of the Ministry of Defence, at the Centre for European Integrations of the University of Bonn, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia and the Faculties of Law and Economics of the University of Montenegro. From 2004 to 2012, she was Head of the

International Organizations course at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia.From 2005 to 2009 she was the Director of the European Integration Office of the Government of Serbia, member of the Negotiating team for Stabilization and Association Agreement negotiations, and Head of the Negotiating team for Readmission and Visa Facilitation Agreement between Serbia and the EU. During 2011 and 2012, Ms. Miščević served first as Advisor to the Minister of Defence, then as State Secretary for Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia. Previously, from 2009 to 2010 she was a member and Vice-President of the Board of the Anticorruption Agency. Prior to her appointment as Head of the Negotiating team, Ms. Miščević served as Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for foreign trade in the Serbian Government.She is the author of many articles on the theory and practice of functioning of international governmental organizations, the reform of the founding acts of the European Union, the historical development of European integration, EU enlargement policy, the Stabilisation and Association process, the relations between Serbia and the European Union and the Common Foreign and Security Policy. She wrote three books: “Association to the European Union” (2005), “Association to the European Union” (2009), and “A New Era of International Organizations” (2012).She received the “Contribution of the Year to Europe” award in 2006, then in 2014, as well as “The best European of the Balkans” award and “The Rainbow” award for promotion of LGBT rights and fight against homophobia in Serbia.Ms. Miščević is the Vice-President of the European Movement in Serbia.

Elisabeth BrawDirector of the Modern Detterence Program at RUSI UK.Elisabeth Braw is an associate fellow; she directs the Modern Deterrence programme, which focuses on how governments, business and civil society can work together to strengthen our defence against existing and emerging threats. Prior to RUSI, she worked at Control Risks following a career as a journalist where she reported from the United States, Germany, Italy and other countries. She remains a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign

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Policy and Politico, focusing on European defence and security, and frequently speaks at conferences. Elisabeth has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. A native of Sweden, she attended university in Germany, finishing her Magister Artium degree in political science and German literature with a dissertation on nuclear weapons reduction in Europe. She speaks German, Swedish and English, and gets by in Italian.

Anna WieslanderAnna Wieslander serves as director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council. She concurrently serves as secretary general of the Swedish Defence Association, a non-political NGO which for more than 125 years has promoted knowledge on defence and security among the Swedish public. She is an experienced manager, moderator, and commentator who has published extensively. Her expertise covers security and defence policy, NATO and PfP, the transatlantic link, and defence

industry issues. Wieslander has a strong background from the public and private sector. From 2013 to 2016 she was deputy director at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, a leading think tank on foreign policy in Sweden, where she also headed the communications department. From 2003 to 2008 she held the position as head of Speaker’s Office at the Swedish Parliament. From 1996 to 2003 she held various positions at the Swedish Defence Ministry including: secretary of the Swedish Defence Commission; deputy director; and head of section responsible for NATO and Partnership for Peace, France, and Great Britain. In 1995, she conducted the Government Offices Trainee Program. Wieslander has also held positions as international affairs director at Saab, communications director at Carlsberg Sweden (2011-12), and at the Swedish Postcode Lottery (2008-10), and as such been part of corporate top management. She started her career as a newspaper journalist in Sweden in 1987. She is a member of the board of Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), a Stockholm-based think tank with a focus on Central Asia and Asia. She holds an IB exam from United World College of the American West (1987), a BA degree in journalism from Gothenburg University (1990), and a MA degree in political science from Lund University (1995). She is a PhD candidate in international relations at Lund University, and has pursued doctoral studies at University of California at Berkeley. She is a 2015 alumni of the Georgetown University Leadership Seminar.

Jakub JandaDirector of the European Values Think-Tank and Head of the Kremlin Watch Program. Originally from: České Budějovice.Jakub Janda is Head of Kremlin Watch Program and Director at the European Values Think-Tank based in Prague. He specializes in response of democratic states to hostile disinformation and influence operations. He is Associate Fellow at Slovak Security Policy Institute and regular contributor for the Atlantic Council. He serves a member

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of Editorial Board of expert portal AntiPropaganda.sk and as a proud member of Active Reserves of the Czech Armed Forces.In 2016 – 2017, he was tasked by Czech security and intelligence institutions to consult on “Influence of Foreign Powers” chapter within Audit of National Security conducted by the Czech government, where he was involved in the Czech policy shift on this issue. Since 2015, he was asked to provide briefings or trainings in more than 20 countries. In the past he worked for humanitarian agency ADRA International and for a Member of the Czech Parliament.

Ian BondIan Bond joined the Centre for European Reform as director of foreign policy in April 2013. Prior to that, he was a member of the British diplomatic service for 28 years. His most recent appointment was as political counsellor and joint head of the foreign and security policy group in the British Embassy, Washington (2007-12), where he focused on US foreign policy towards Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa. He was British Ambassador to Latvia from 2005-07, receiving a CVO

(Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) for his work on the Queen’s state visit in 2006. He was posted in Vienna as deputy head of the UK delegation to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from 2000-04, working on human rights and democracy in the OSCE area, and on conflict prevention and resolution in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. His earlier career included postings in Moscow (1993-96) and at NATO HQ (1987-90), and working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the former Soviet Union, on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and on NATO and UK defence policy. Ian holds an MA in classics from Oxford University.

John CappelloJohn Cappello, a 25-year veteran of the United States Air Force, is a senior fellow for military affairs at FDD where he leads the Military Affairs program, researching and publishing on Russian hybrid warfare capabilities and information operations - focus on the Balkans and East Europe.A career pilot and political-military officer, John has extensive experience in Eastern Europe and Israel. Most recently, he served in Israel as the U.S. Air Force attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he was responsible for all operational, logistical, and technical issues between the Israel Air Force and the U.S. Air Force. He also served as a senior analyst at the U.S. Missile Defense Agency annex office in Tel Aviv, where he worked closely with the Israel Missile Defense Organization, providing program support for the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow anti-missile programs. John’s experience in the Balkans includes serving as the U.S. Air Force attaché and Acting

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Defense attaché in Belgrade, Serbia, and as a political military officer at Headquarters United States European Command, Stuttgart, Germany.

Vladimir PetreskiVladimir Petreski is a long time Macedonian journalist and editor, working in numerous national media outlets for three decades. He specialized in covering national politics and economics, as well as the intersection of the two. In 1989 he worked as an editor at country’s first newspaper (Demokratski forum) published outside the then socialist political system. In 1990 he was a section editor at the first privately owned daily newspaper in the country (Republika) at the age of 22 and in the mid-‘90ies he was working as an editor-in-chief of

an English language news agency covering Macedonia for the international audiences (Macedonian Information Centre). In 2009 he was appointed as a business editor of the largest circulation daily in the country (Spic).Since 2013, with the onslaught of disinformation phenomenon, he works at the Metamorphosis Foundation as the only full time fact checking editor in the country covering media content fact checking, as well as public accountability fact checks - mainly fulfillment of the political parties’ election promises and the truthfulness/spin in the politicians’ statements for the only two specialized fact checking publications in Macedonia (Crithink.mk and Truthmeter.mk).

David PatrikarakosDavid Patrikarakos is the author of War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. He is a Pointer Fellow at Yale and a Non-Resident Fellow at the School of Iranian Studies, St Andrews.

Milica KovačevićMilica Kovacevic is the President of the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT). She has been active in civil society organizations for almost two decades, and she joined CDT in 2001. Her expertise includes elections, parliamentary development, political and security integration, institutional capacity development, civic participation, campaigns and communications. As trainer and consultant she worked with many NGOs and civic groups in Western Balkans, Eurasia and Middle East, helping them to develop strategic goals and plans,

design civic actions and campaigns, build partnerships and contact internal reforms. Since 2012 she is coordinating the work of Info-Center on Euro-Atlantic Integration in Podgorica.

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