Igor Novaković (born 9 December 1981) is a Serbian

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and director of research at The International and Security Affairs Centre - ISAC Fund.

Biography

Igor Novaković was born on 9 December 1981 in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

. He graduated in 2005 from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy, and then enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Master's Program in European Studies in English (CAESAR) at the same university. He later studied

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

at the Robert Rufili Faculty of Political Science University of Bologna, and spent one semester at

New Bulgarian University New Bulgarian University ( bg, Нов български университет, also known and abbreviated as НБУ, NBU) is a private university based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Its campus is in the western district of the city, known ...

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...

. He completed his master's degree in 2010. Since January 2010 he has been employed by The International and Security Affairs Centre - ISAC Fund in Belgrade as a

research associate Research associates are researchers (scholars and professionals) that usually have an advanced degree beyond a Master's degree. In some universities/research institutes, such as Harvard/Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health, th ...

. He became Research Director in 2015. In 2012 he became an associate of the international non-governmental organization The Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG). He received his PhD from the

University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences The Faculty of Political Sciences ( sr, Факултет политичких наука Универзитета у Београду, Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu, abbreviated FPN) is a constituent institution of the Univers ...

in 2016. He is the coordinator of the Working Groups for Chapter 30 and 31 of the National Convention on the European Union. He also occasionally writes for the

European Western Balkans European Western Balkans (sometimes abbreviated EWB) is a web portal that focuses on the Western Balkans countries and reports on development of the European Union's enlargement policy towards the states of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, ...

portal. He is fluent in

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

, and speaks

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

and

Bulgarian Bulgarian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria * Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group * Bulgarian language, a Slavic language * Bulgarian alphabet * A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria * Bul ...

Selected bibliography

Novaković is the author, co-author and editor of several

publications To publish is to make content available to the general public.Berne Conv ...

scientific Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

and professional papers, as well as proposals for practical policy in the fields of

European Studies European studies is a field of study offered by many academic colleges and universities that focuses on current developments in European integration. Some programmes offer a social science or public administration curriculum focusing on develop ...

political Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

and

military neutrality A neutral country is a sovereign state, state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO, Collective Secu ...

, international security, Serbo-Albanian Relations and more. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

LinkedIn profile

Biography on ISAC fund website

Google Scholar profile
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