17th Summer School: Speakers
We are delighted to share the resounding success of this year’s “Gavro Vuković” Summer School for Young Diplomats. The event was graced by the presence of over 30 distinguished speakers, renowned theorists, and esteemed practitioners in the field of international relations.
These exceptional individuals dedicated themselves to enlightening and inspiring their younger colleagues, bringing them closer to the complex issues of contemporary diplomacy.
With their wealth of experience and expertise, diplomats, professors, politicians, policy analysts, and other experts joined forces to create an environment of profound enlightenment and knowledge-sharing.
Speakers:
Abdelkader El Khissassi
Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean
Aleksandar Drljević
Director General for Bilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
Borko Vulikić
Portfolio and Policy Analyst, Climate Change and Biodiversity,UNDP
Cedric Grousset
Director of Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Center
Dijana Tući
Director for Security Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
Ekaterina Paniklova
UNDP Resident Representative to Montenegro
Erik Goldstein
Professor of International Relations and History at the Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies
Filip Ivanović
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
Hans Bastian Van Den Berg
Director at the Young Diplomat and Project Director at the Center for International Legal Cooperation
Helen Popp
Cyber Policy Expert, European External Action Service
Javier Colomina
NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs
Jelena Džankić
Professor at the Global Goverence Programme at the Robert Shuman Center of the European University Institute in Florence
Kaća Djuričković
UNDP Montenegro, Gender Team
Kawtar El Outmani
Economist (Kingdom of Morocco)
Kelly M. McFarland
Director of Programs and Research at the Institute of the Study of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University
Lars Kirchhoff
Director of the Institute for Conflict Management (Germany)
Marija Maraš
General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Marija Blagojević
UNDP Montenegro, Gender Team
Max Eleveld
Senior Fellow Diplomacy at the Clingendael Academy
Miguel Angel Moratinos
United Nations Under Secretary General and High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Milan Roćen
Founder of Summer School and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
Milena Kalezić
Director General for NATO and Security Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
Milun Rmuš
President of the Assembly of Berane Municipality
Miroslav Sazdovski
Senior Analyst, European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
Mohammed Elrazzaz
Head of Sector for Regional Integration, Economic Development and Employment Division at the Union for the Mediterranean
Nayef Stetieh
Former Minister of Labour of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Salwa Sahloul
Member of the "Mediterranean Women Mediators Network" (Republic of Tunisia)
Shoroke Zidan
CEO Ta’heal (Arab Republic of Egypt)
Snežana Dragojević
Portfolio Oversight Specialist, UNDP
Tamara Vujović
Minister of Culture and Media of Montenegro
Tristen Naylor
Fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Volkan Bozkir
President of the 75th United Nations General Assembly and Former Minister for European Union Affairs of the Republic of Turkiye