Senior Advisory Board

Members of Senior Advisory Board (SAB) are high-level figures from public life with a strong connection to the Balkans and the EU who help promote CEIS activities and outputs and give advice on programming. The SAB also provides strategic guidance to the Board of Directors and facilitates access to resources.

Wolfgang Petritsch, Paris (chair)

Sonja Biserko, Belgrade

Erhard Busek, Brussels

Jakob Finci, Sarajevo

Sir Marrack Goulding, Oxford

Pierre Hassner, Paris

Bozidar Matic, Sarajevo

Vreni Müller-Hemmi , Zurich

Manfred Nowak, Vienna

James C. O’Brien, Washington, D.C.

Vesna Pusic, Zagreb

Hannes Swoboda, Vienna

Theodor Winkler, Geneva

Scientific council

Members of the Scientific Council are invited on the basis of their expertise and activities related to the Balkans, to post-conflict peacebuilding, or EU integration. The Scientific Council advises the Board of Directors on the scientific substance of CEIS work. It contributes to formulating the main goals of the CEIS and to assessing its activities, Organization, and development. It also facilitates the collaboration with universities, research institutes and other potential project partners.

Othon Anastasakis, Oxford, South East European Studies, St Antony's College

Judy Batt, Paris, Institute for Security Studies

Florian Bieber, Canterbury, University of Kent

Sumantra Bose, London, London School of Economics

Michael Daxner, Oldenburg, University of Oldenburg

Josef Marko, Graz, University of Graz

Zoran Pajic, London, King’s College

Paul Stubbs, Zagreb, Institute of Economics

Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Susan Woodward, New York, City University of New York

International executive committee

The International Executive Committee is the governing body of the CEIS.Its members are designated according to the following key: 4 representatives of the Senior Advisory Board; 2 representatives of Scientific Council; 2 representatives of regular and associate members, to be designated at the first General Assembly; and, as a non-voting observer, the Secretary-General as a representative of the Board of Directors.

Jakob Finci (president)
Florian Bieber, Canterbury
Vreni Mueller-Hemmi, Zurich
Zoran Pajic, London
Alexander Petritz, Belgrade
Vesna Pusic, Zagreb
Christophe Solioz, Geneva (Secretary-General)
Hannes Swoboda, Vienna