Nikola Ivezaj

Nikola Ivezaj is Vice President and Deputy to Chief Policy and Governmental Relations Officer at Global Citizen.

Nikola was a career diplomat from Montenegro’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he spent 10 years as the First Secretary in the Foreign Ministry in Montenegro, and later, in the Permanent Mission of Montenegro to the United Nations. Subsequently, he became an Advisor to the 72nd President of the United Nations General Assembly. During his time in the Mission, Nikola was also part of the campaign team of H.E. Prof. Dr. Igor Lukšić, Montenegro’s candidate for the position of United Nations Secretary-General in 2016 and has briefly served as the Vice-Consul of Montenegro in New York.

Nikola also worked for a number of United Nations funds and programs. He was a Partnership Advisor at the United Nations Office for Project Services; Program Consultant for the United Nations Development Programme; and a representative of the Easter European Group in the Executive Board of the UNDP, UNOPS and UNFPA.

Nikola has a Bachelor’s in Legal Sciences, a postgraduate specialized degree in International Law, a Master’s degree in Legal Sciences, as well as a certificate from the Fordham Law Summer Institute in New York. He loves sports, specifically football and is a big AC Milan fan. He is fluent in Montenegrin, Albanian and English, and proficient in Italian.