Current Fellows

Past Fellows

Marina Dimova> Bulgaria
Dimova holds a BA in Economics and Government, with a concentration in International Studies from Franklin and Marshall College. She is currently a senior analyst on health care and environmental policy at the Boston-based Analysis Group. Previously she worked in the securities practice of NERA Economic Consulting and as an intern with the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a volunteer economic consultant for the Bulgarian-based NGO BankWatch Network, and has undertaken several field study trips around the world to research socio-economic and environmental issues, including to India, Tanzania, Hawaii, New Zealand and Mexico. She will enroll in the Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development program in September 2007.

Athanasios Kontogeorgis> Greece
Kontogeorgis studied in the Master in Public Policy program at the Kennedy School. An attorney, Kontogeorgis holds an LLB degree from the University of Athens Law School and an MsC in European Union and Developing Countries from Panteion University. He has served as president of the Greek-European Youth Association, a social and political analyst for the Institute of Strategic and Development Studies and communications coordinator for local chapters of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in Greece. He received his Kennedy School degree in June 2008.

Tamas Kowalik> Hungary
Kowalik has over five years of career experience serving in various ministries in Hungary, including as professional adviser to the Ministry of Economy and Transport, speechwriter at the Ministry of Environment and Water, and political adviser to the Ministry of Education. Mr. Kowalik received his BA and MA degrees from the Eotvos Lorand University University of Sciences Faculty of Law, and is currently pursuing a PhD and a law degree from the same university. He graduated from the Kennedy School’s Mason Fellows/Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program in June 2008.

Stela Mocan> Moldova
Mocan recently served as Program Officer for the International Republican Institute in Chisinau, Moldova, where she creates democracy building strategies and development programs for political parties and civil society organizations. Prior to that, she held a position as a project manager for the United Nations Development Program in Moldova. She has served as a consultant to the Soros Moldova Foundation and is a Member of the Board of Transparency International’s Moldova Chapter. Mocan holds an undergraduate degree in history from Moldova State University, and conducted post-graduate studies in political science from the National School of Government and Political Studies in Romania. She graduated from the Kennedy School’s Mason Fellows/Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program in June 2008.

Burak Erdenir> Turkey
Erdenir holds a BSc degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara and an MBA from Georgetown University. He received his PhD in Political Science and Public Administration from Ankara University and has has been teaching at Bilkent University and Ankara University as a part-time lecturer. Erdenir is currently a senior expert at the European Union Secretariat General of the Turkish Prime Ministry, the governmental body which oversees Turkey’s pre-accession process for European Union membership. He is the author of the book European Identity: From Pan-Nationalism to Post-Nationalism and has published many articles on cultural issues and various aspects of Turkey-European Union relationship. Erdenir graduated from the Kennedy School Mason Fellows/Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program in June 2008.

Damir Tokic> Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tokic earned a BA in political science and minor in communication from St. John’s University, Minnesota in May 2006. Prior to studying at the Kennedy School, he completed a training program at the Directorate for European Integrations, Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and an internship at the Washington, D.C.-based public advocacy firm David Turch and Associates. He also worked as a TV game show host at Federal Radio and Television in Sarajevo and as a project manager for the Peace Trails Program (Bosnia and Herzegovina), during which he founded and directed the first post-war paragliding school in his country. Tokic graduated from the Kennedy School with a Master’s in Public Policy in June 2008.

Nilgun Yankaya> Turkey
Yankaya is a native of Edirne, Turkey and graduated with high honors with a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and a certificate in Applied Math from Princeton University in 2002. Before enrolling in graduate studies at Harvard, Nilgun worked as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division and Corporate Finance team, where she worked on Turkey's privatization projects in Turkey, including Turk Telekom as well as the sale of a strategic stake in Garanti Bank to GE. Yankaya earned a joint-degree in the Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration and International Development program and the Harvard Business School’s MBA program in June 2008.

Recep Bildik> Turkey 
A native of Istanbul, Bildik received a BSc in Economics and PhD in Finance from Istanbul University, and a MSc in Finance from the Business School of Istanbul University. He graduated from the Kennedy School’s Mason Fellows/Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program in June 2007. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School he served assistant director of the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE), where he played a pivotal role in establishing its first computerized trading system. He also served as an adjunct professor Koc University’s Graduate School of Business, and was appointed as associate professor of Finance in 2005 by Turkey’s Higher Education Council. Bildik has published numerous papers on capital market in both local and international journals, and served as a visiting scholar from 2003-2004 at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and DePaul University’s Finance Department. He is an active member of numerous professional boards and committees, including the editorial board of the Istanbul Stock Exchange Review, the publication committee of the ISE, the American Finance Association and the European Financial Management Association.

Richard Danicic> Serbia
Raised in Belgrade, Danicic received his BA in International Business at Hawaii Pacific University. He became the first executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia and Montenegro in January 2002, where he worked to improve the country’s overall business environment for foreign investors and facilitated communication between the private sector and government. Prior to this, he worked in the US financial industry, specializing in futures and future options contracts in the regulated commodity markets. Danicic earned a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in June 2007.

Penelopa Gjurcilova> FYROM
A native of Skopje, Gjurcilova holds a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the American College of Switzerland, a Law degree from the Law School of St. Cyril and Methody University in Skopje, an LLM degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and a PhD from the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence. Since 1995, she served as a counselor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including a posting at the Permanent Mission of Macedonia to the United Nations in New York. Prior to this post, Gjurcilova worked as an associate attorney at Peluso, Valentino and Iacobelli in New York. She is also co-founder and Vice-President of the Macedonian Women's Lobby. Gjurcilova graduated from the Kennedy School’s Mason Fellows/Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program in June 2007.

Kyriakos Pierrakakis> Greece
Pierrakakis graduated with honors in 2005 from the Athens University of Economics and Business with a BSc in Informatics. He began his involvement in politics began from an early age, being one of the youngest delegates in the PASOK (Socialist Party) National Convention in 2001. During the Greek national election campaign of 2004, he served at the campaign headquarters of George Papandreou as an aide in media relations and media coverage assessment. After the elections he continued serving at the office of the President of PASOK in the areas of international relations and conference organization. He earned a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School in June 2007. Pierrakakis will commence his Master’s Degree in the Technology Policy Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2007, with the aim of continuing for a PhD.

Linda Peia> Romania
Peia is a native of Arad, Romania and graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Economics and Political Science/International Relations from the American University in Bulgaria. In 2003, she served in the economic section of the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC, where she worked as a research assistant on foreign investment and institutional reform of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). She completed a comparative research study on SME development for the local government in Romania, for which she spent February-May 2005 at the Latin American University of Social Sciences in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Peia also worked as an intern at the Center for Trade Policy Studies of the Cato Institute in Washington D.C., and assisted the WEF Global Institute for Partnership and Governance in the organization of the World Economic Forum in 2005. Peia earned a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School in June 2007.

Meltem Aran> Turkey
Born in Istanbul, Aran graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Economics and International Relations in May 2000. Prior to coming to Harvard, she worked as an economist for the Industrial Development Bank in Turkey. In June 2004, she obtained a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School. During the summer of 2003, she completed an internship at the National Treasury of South Africa. After graduating from Harvard, Aran moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to work for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department at the World Bank. Her work focused on poverty issues, specifically relating to the effect of public spending on the poor and the impact of poverty alleviation programs in health, education and social protection. She currently works in the nonprofit sector in Turkey.

Kosta Barjaba> Albania
Barjaba is a native of Saranda, Albania. He earned a BA in Political Science (1984), a Ph.D. in Sociology (1989) and a Law degree (2000) from the University of Tirana. Barjaba also received his professorship in 1999 from the University of Shkodra-Albania. In June 2005, he received a Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School. Since graduating from Harvard, Barjaba worked first as adviser to the Minister of Finance and then as the president of the newly-founded University of Durres in Albania. He is now chief of staff to the Minister of Labor. With local Harvard alumni, Barjaba founded the Harvard Club of Albania in September 2005, and is currently serving his first term as the president of the Club.

Kujtese Bejtullahu> Kosovo
A native of Pristina, Bejtullahu graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Relations and a secondary degree in Economics in 2004. During her undergraduate studies, she founded the World Refugee Academy - an initiative to help refugee youth access opportunities for tertiary education - and led a team of Stanford students to a refugee camp in Botswana to conduct educational work. Bejtullahu also served as a media officer for the 2003 World Economic Forum, completed an internship with the German Foundation for International Development, and was a conference facilitator for the 2001 Kosovo Youth Congress. She graduated with a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development in June 2006, and is currently based in London with Deutsche Bank's leveraged finance team.

Esen Caglar> Turkey
Born in Istanbul, Caglar graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 2003 with a BA in Politics and certificates in Political Economy and Near Eastern Studies. Prior to his studies at Harvard, Caglar worked as a Technology Policy Advisor for the GOSB Technopark, one of Turkey's first technology-development zones. He also undertook internships at CNN Turk as a junior producer, and at Koc Holding as a strategic planning analyst. Caglar graduated from the Master in Public Administration and International Development program in 2005. After leaving the Kennedy School, he spent four months in Ethiopia working as a consultant for the World Bank. Currently, Caglar works as an Economist for at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Institute (TEPAV).

Manuel Costescu> Romania
A native of Sibiu, Romania, Costescu graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in 1999 with a BA in Economics, where he completed a thesis focusing on economic growth and military expenditures in Greece. From 1999-2000, Mr. Costescu worked as a research analyst for The Brattle Group. He obtained a joint Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management in June 2005. Costescu was selected from among thousands of international graduate students as a 2005 American Academy of Achievement awardee. Currently he is an associate at McKinsey and Company in New York City.

Theodore Diasakos> Greece
Born in Sparta Greece, Diasakos graduated in 1996 from the University of Cambridge, King's College, with a BA in Economics and an M.Phil in Economic Theory and Econometrics. From 1996-1998, he served in the Greek Army Special Forces as a cadet officer, and worked as an economic analyst in the private sector in England from 1998-1999. Diasakos obtained a Master's Degree in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School in 2001, graduating with the highest academic achievement, a recipient of the John E. Thayer award. He was also a honoree graduate student of the American Academy of Achievement at their 2000 London summit. Diasakos received a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007. He will assume an assistant professor position at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Torino Italy, starting in the 2007-08 academic year.

Ovidiu Dranga> Romania
Dranga received a BS in Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest in 1990, and a Master in International Affairs from the Romanian Institute for International Relations in 1993. He served for ten years in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he started his diplomatic career as an attaché in 1991 with the Policy Planning Division. He also served as director general at the Department for Defense Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Romanian Ministry of National Defense. Dranga obtained a Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in June 2004. Since June 2005, he has been working as political director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sebestyen Gorka> Hungary
Gorka graduated with double honors in Philosophy and Theology at the University of London’s Heythrop College in 1991. In 1997 he earned an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration in Budapest. Gorka worked as an analyst for the Hungarian Ministry of Defense, and was an international research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Policy Institute and has published internationally on defense reform terrorism, the NIS and European security issues. Gorka studied in the Master in Public Administration program at the Kennedy School from 1998-1999. He currently serves a director at the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, and is a PhD candidate in political science at the Corvinus University. He remains an analytic contributor to the JANES publishing group and lectures regularly on national security issues at institutions such as the NATO School, Oberammergau and the FBI's International Law Enforcement Academy.

Yonita Grigorova> Bulgaria
Born in Lovech, Bulgaria, Grigorova received her undergraduate degree from the University for National and World Economy, Sofia, in 1996. She obtained a Master in International Economic Relations from the same university in 1997, followed by a Master in Economics from Boston University in 1999. Grigorova obtained her Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School in June 2003. She has served as an economist at the UNDP in Sofia and New York, a macroeconomic analyst at the Agency for Economic Analysis and Forecasting in Sofia, a financial analyst at Global Securities Bulgaria and Prudential Securities in Boston, and a reporter at Kapital. Since graduating from the Kennedy School, she has worked as a research fellow at Harvard’s Wiener Center for Social Policy, and at the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Currently Grigorova is regional project manager for Deloitte Central Europe in Bulgaria, where she is part of the Central Europe Clients & Markets Team.

Anca-Maria Harasim> Romania
Harasim obtained a Master of Science from Bucharest Polytechnic University in 1983. She served as Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission and of the Soros Foundation for an Open Society, both based in Bucharest. Harasim earned a Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in 1999. From 2000-2002, she worked for The World Bank in Tirana, Albania, as a consultant on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. She is the president of the Carpathian Foundation, a non-profit that helps NGOs and local governments to promote regional development and to prevent conflicts. Since September 2000, she has served as executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania.

Vuk Jeremic> Serbia
Jeremic graduated from Queen’s College in 1998 with a BA in Theoretical and Experimental Physics. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Quantitative Finance at Imperial College, University of London. He worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in London, and was an advisor to the Federal Minister of Telecommunications of Yugoslavia. An active participant in the OTPOR! Resistance movement of Yugoslav students, he also co-founded the Organization of Serbian Students Abroad. Jeremic obtained a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School of Government in 2003. After graduation, he served as the Serbian defense minister's special envoy for Euro-Atlantic Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and as the senior advisor to the President of Serbia. In May 2007, he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia.

Georgi Kadiev> Bulgaria
Born in Bourgas, Bulgaria, Kadiev earned an MA in International Affairs from Moscow State University for International Relations in 1992, with a specialization in Southeast Asian Studies. In 1994, he earned an MA in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Leicester, England, where he served as a British Council fellow. He then worked as a journalist in the 24 Hours Daily in Sofia and as a foreign press correspondent from Sofia. In 1996, Kadiev founded a private news-clipping service that issued press reviews and reports on economic life in Bulgaria. Kadiev earned his Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration program at the Kennedy School in 1999. Upon graduation, he sold his company to Internet securities, Inc., where he continued to work as a member of the board and global head of their analytical services. In June 2005, Kadiev ran for parliament on the list of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. He was elected as a member of parliament, representing his home town. Since September 2005, Kadiev has worked in the Ministry of Finance as deputy minister in charge of tax policy issues, tax administration, and customs.

Maria Kapsi> Greece
Kapsi studied political science, international relations and European public administration at Panteion University in Athens. She worked as a consultant on European issues in Brussels, and as an assistant to a Greek member of the European Parliament. In addition, Kapsi was involved in European Union programs on energy issues. She obtained a Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in June 2000. She served as part of the Athens 2004 Olympics Organizing Committee, serving as a liaison between Athens 2004 and the City of Athens on policy coordination issues. Kapsi is currently serving as an advisor for organizational management at the Greek National Communications and Post Commission.

Sorin Kertesz> Romania
Born in Oradea, Romania, Kertesz graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest in 2000 with a BA in International Business and Economics. He obtained a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government in 2002. After leaving Harvard, Kertesz worked as a consultant to the World Bank in Romania. Since 2004, he has worked in Romania and Greece with Accenture, a global outsourcing company. Kertesz has also been active as a leader of AIESEC, the international association of students in Economics.

Milen Marinov> Bulgaria
Milen Marinov graduated with a BS and MS in Business and Management Information Systems from the Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University. In 2000, Marinov was was a member of the Bulgarian Easter Initiative (a government initiative aimed at supporting the country’s entry to the European Union), where he served as a lead member of the IT and healthcare reform team. Between August 2001-2003, Marinov worked as a management consultant at Deloitte & Touche’s Boston-based offices, where he worked largely with non-profit and public sector clients. Marinov earned a joint Master’s in Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School and an MBA from Columbia University in June 2007. He currently works as an associate at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division in New York.

Lucia Padure> Moldova
Padure received her university degree in Economics from Chisinau National University in 1989, and a Doctorate in Economic Sciences from St. Petersburg State University in 1992. After completing an MA program in Economics from Northeastern University in 1994, she worked with KPMG Barents Group as a public policy consultant for the Moldovan Parliamentary Project. She has held teaching posts at the University of Kansas and the International Institute of Management Moldova, where she became the Vice-Rector in 1998. She earned her Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in 2003. After Harvard, she became a research fellow at the University of Toronto, where she is also working on a doctorate on higher education reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2005, Padure won a two-year Fellowship from the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. She is currently working for the Ontario Government as a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, focusing on international higher education reforms, including the Bologna process in Europe.

Dritan Prifti> Albania
Prifti studied English literature at the University of Tirana and earned his MBA from the University of New Mexico. He obtained a Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in June 2000. Prifti has worked as chief of staff to the Ministers of Finance and Labor, as general director of the Albanian Elector-Energy Corporation and Minister of Energy in Albania. In July 2001, Prifti was elected to the Albanian Parliament for a 4-year term from the district of Fieri and in 2006 was re-elected.

Tolga Sobaci> Turkey
Sobaci graduated from Ankara University in 1995 with a BA in Economics. He also holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and an MSc in Finance from Boston College. Prior to his studies at Harvard, Sobaci was employed as a junior associate at the World Bank in Washington DC and as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Ankara. Sobaci obtained a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School of Government in 2003. After completing his studies at Harvard, Sobaci returned to Turkey and worked as an investment officer for the International Finance Corporation in Istanbul for two years. He is the founder of the Turkish subsidiary of Studio Moderna, the leading Direct Response television company of Europe, where he is currently the CEO.

Marian Stas> Romania
Born in Bariad, Romania, Stas received a Computer Science degree from the Romanian Technical Military Academy in 1985 and a degree in mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1996. He obtained a Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in 1999. In 2001 he retired as a lieutenant-colonel from the Romanian army and worked at the Human Resources Department of the Romanian Ministry of Defense, where he coordinated the professional reconversion program for downsized military. Stas is now Chairman of CODECS Foundation for Leadership, an NGO set up in February 2001. The Foundation's goal is to develop and consolidate the organizational culture of transformational leadership in Romania.

Peter Szoldan> Hungary
Szoldan was born in Budapest, where he studied communication and media policy at the Jozsef Attila University. He worked as a press campaign manager for the President of the Fidesz Party and served as a representative in the Budapest City Council from 1990-1998. Szoldan obtained a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School in 2001. He has since worked as an associate for McKinsey New York, a consultant for Droege & Company, and a financial analyst for Mekisoft, Inc. Currently he is the CEO of a company he founded, NetDayTrade and manager of ActiveMedia, an online marketing firm.

Elka Todorova> Bulgaria
Todorova holds an MD degree in Psychology from Moscow State University and a PhD in Social Psychology from the Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998, which facilitated her studies at the School of Social work at Salem State College. She earned a DSc from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2000, and a Mid-Career Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in 2001. Prior to Harvard, Todorova founded an NGO on neighborhood social services, and continues to serve as a director and member of the Board. From 1996-2000, she was dean of Faculty of Social Work at Varna Free University. She is the author of six books and has published numerous articles. Todorova is now a senior research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and director of the European Social Policy and Social Work Master’s Program at the New Bulgarian University. She also serves as an advisor to the Chairman of the Bulgarian Parliament.

Ana S. Trbovich> Serbia
Trbovich completed a joint degree program with Tufts University and the Fletcher School in 1998, having triple-majored in Economics, International Relations and French Literature for her BA, and earning a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy. She obtained a Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School in June 2001 and completed her PhD at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2006. Trbovich served as assistant minister of International Economic Relations in the Government of Serbia from 2002-2006. Her responsibilities included coordinating Serbia’s EU accession process and directing foreign direct investment policy. Trbovich worked on the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in the Republic of Srpska in 1997, and also worked in the non-government sector in the field of democratization and economic development. Currently she is an assistant professor at the University of Singidunum, where she is also the director of the Center for European Integration for the Faculty of Economics, Finance, and Administration. Additionally, she is a Senior Consultant with USAID Serbia.

Miroslav Vassilev> Bulgaria
Vassilev holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the American University in Bulgaria and a Master of Science in Management Research from Keble College, University of Oxford. His professional experience includes working as a strategy consultant for the United Nations and Project Director for Goldman Sachs’ Global Leaders Social Entrepreneurship Fund, during which he founded and led the implementation team for a project focused on women at high risk in post-conflict FYROM. Vassilev also was the founder and project leader of the EU-funded Ethnic Minority Enterprise Initiative and a crisis management advisor for the International Red Cross in FYROM. In June 2007, he earned a joint Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School and an MBA from The Wharton School. Vassilev is currently an investment analyst with Rockbay Capital Management, L.P. in New York City.

Katarina Veljovic> Serbia
Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Veljovic obtained a Bachelor in Law from the University of Belgrade in 1996 and an LL.M. from Northwestern University in 1998, graduating with honors from both universities. From 1998-2000 she worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London as an associate to the General Counselor conducting comparative law research and briefings on legal and policy issues. Veljovic earned a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government in June 2002. After Harvard, Veljovic headed the Treasury Department of the Serbian Ministry of Finance, and soon after was promoted to assistant minister of finance. From 2004-2007 she served as director of Investment Management at M&A Publikum, a firm managing foreign investments in the Serbian financial sector. She is currently spearheading the World Bank’s corporate governance initiatives in Serbia and working on her PhD at the University of Belgrade, focusing on corporate governance and ownership concentration in Serbia.

Nicholas Yatromanolakis> Greece
Yatromanolakis studied political science and international relations at Panteion University in Athens, earning his BA in 1997. Prior to his studies at Harvard, Yatromanolakis worked at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where he was in charge of the Information and Documentation department. He obtained a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School in June 2000. After graduation, he served as associate director for research and strategic planning at the Kokkalis Program. Between 2002-2004, he worked as corporate social responsibility and communication officer for S&B Industrial Minerals in Athens, Greece. In February 2004, Yatromanolakis began serving as education program manager for Microsoft Hellas, where he was involved in the company’s new “Partners in Learning” initiative. Since November 2005, he has been the Citizenship and Government Affairs manager for Microsoft Hellas.