About the Author: Ivan Vejvoda

Ivan Vejvoda, from Serbia, is a permanent fellow and head of the Europe’s Futures project at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. He served as senior vice president for programs at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States from 2010 to 2017. Previously, he was executive director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a GMF project dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions in Southeastern Europe, from 2003 to 2010. Vejvoda came to GMF 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.