Jelena Drakulic-Petrovic, general manager of the largest media publishing house in Serbia, Ringier d.o.o
Graduated from Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University in 2001. Have been at Ringier since 2004, started from Marketing, through Business development and Publishing management till becoming general manager of all Ringier activities in Serbia in 2008. Previous working expertise in sales and FMCG.
Milorad Ivanovic is the deputy editor-in-chief of Blic, the largest Serbian daily newspaper. He was previously the paper’s foreign affairs editor and has a special interest in investigative and cross-border journalism
Milorad has also worked as a correspondent for the the French news agency EPN and has had articles published in such international newspapers as The Sunday Times in the UK, El Mundo in Spain, Der Standard in Austria and the Washington times.
Milorad produced Hidden Wounds, a documentary film on post-traumatic stress disorder which was made in co-operation with the BBC.
His investigations have included work on human trafficking (in association with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting), the employment of Balkan mercenaries by British and US security firms in Iraq, and arms trafficking from Ukraine into Serbia.
In 2007 Milorad was selected for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.
Dragana Babovic is a journalist for the Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti. Since 2003, she has covered stories about corruption, organized crime, conflict of interest and nepotism.
In 2009, Babovic won an award for her investigative reports on corruption given by the Media Institute as part of the campaign ‘Society without Corruption.’ She is also part of the investigative programme ‘Under the Scope’ that is conducted by Vijesti and the weekly Monitor, along with MANS.
Last year, Babovic participated in a project funded by USAID called Good Governance Activity in Montenegro. She also conducted research on a series of investigative pieces pertaining to the efficiency of juridical work.
Babovic lives in Podgorica and is a lawyer by vocation.
Randall Joyce has been a producer at CBS News for 25 years and has been working overseas since 1995
His work has ranged from hard news stories and war reporting for the CBS Evening News to longer investigative pieces for prime-time broadcasts such as 60 Minutes II and Public Eye.
He has won numerous awards for his work including the DuPont Silver Baton, an Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award for Human rights reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News and three RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards.
He is currently based in Belgrade but travels extensively, with his most recent work largely focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Stephen Grey is an award-winning investigative journalist and author best known for revealing details of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. Grey is an independent writer based in London where he conducts research and works on newspaper articles, radio and TV broadcasts and as Reuters special correspondent in its global enterprise team.
Grey has covered several national security issues and has reported extensively from Iraq and Afghanistan. His research in Afghanistan analyzes the conflict from the perspectives of NATO and the Afghan military and civilians.
In the summer of 2003, Grey began investigating reports of the CIA’s secret system of extraordinary rendition, where terror suspects were transferred to foreign jails where many were tortured. After discovering a method to track the movements of the CIA planes allegedly used for rendition, he published the flight logs of these jets in the Sunday Times in November 2004. He later contributed to several front-page articles in the New York Times about rendition and security issues, as well as to Newsweek, CBS 60 Minutes, Le Monde Diplomatique, and BBC Radio 4’s ‘File on Four’. He also presented documentaries on the CIA’s rendition program for Channel 4’s Dispatches Program and PBS Frontline World.
In 2005, he received the Amnesty International UK Media Award for best article in a periodical. In 2006, he received the Joe and Laurie Dine award for Best International Reporting in any medium pertaining to human rights from the Overseas Press Club of America.
He is the author of Operation Snakebite: The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege and Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program. More at http://www.stephengrey.com.
Mila Radulovic is an experienced journalist that worked for the most prominent media in Serbia and Montenegro Borba, Dnevni Telegraf, Vijesti and agency Beta.
In the beginning of her career, she reported on political and economic topics. In past years, her focus is on stories pertaining to corruption. Presently, she is coordinating an investigative journalism programme for the NGO MANS, which is devoted to fighting corruption and organized crime.
Luuk Sengers is an investigative reporter and journalism lecturer
He was a staff writer at national newspapers and magazines in the Netherlands for sixteen years, before he founded his own company in 2005.
Since then he has taught investigative techniques to reporters and other research professionals. He still writes pieces about the environment and sustainability, and he is busy establishing an international website for stories about the transition towards a sustainable society.
Luuk is a board member of the Dutch Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists.
Dr. Alberto Bin is Director, Integration, Partnership and Cooperation in the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
In this capacity, he is responsible for the development and implementation of NATO’s programs in support of partnership, dialogue and cooperation with all non-NATO nations. Prior to that, Dr. Bin was Head of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Global Partners Section in the same Division.
Prior to joining NATO, Dr. Bin was Deputy Director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta, where he held the Chair of International History. He was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Catania, Italy and lectured at a number of universities and other academic institutions. Prior to that, Dr. Bin worked for several years in the private sector including in the Middle East.
Dr. Bin holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His undergraduate education was in history at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Italy. He has published books and articles on – inter alia – Mediterranean and Middle East security.
Lani spent nine years (1983-1992) as chief editor of ‘Zeri i Rinise’ newspaper, followed by three years (1992 1995) as media coordinator at the Soros Foundation
A graduate of Tirana University, Faculty of Philosophy. Lani was also a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’ between 1991 1993; and for ‘Zeri’ newspaper, in Pristina, between 1993 and 1995.
Lani currently works as the Executive Director of the Albanian Media Institute and is also editor of the Alternative Information Network in Tirana, the first President of the South East Network of Media Centers and Media Institutes, which brings together 17 organisations in SEE and is a founding member of the first Human Rights Group in Albania (The Forum for Human Rights).
He has written widely on Balkan affairs for local and international newspapers and magazines such as: ‘El Mundo’ Madrid, ‘The Guardian’ London, Quimera Barcelona, The International Spectator Rome, Futuribili Trieste, Fokus Skopje, Nasha Borba Belgrade, Vreme Belgrade, Oslobodjenie Sarajevo, Monitor Podgorica, War Report London, and Transition-Prague.
Lani has worked with the Aspen Institute, Berlin, the Istituto Affari Internationali-Rome, CESPI-Rome, the Center for International and Strategic Studies- Washington, the Carter Center- Atlanta, and the Hellenic Foundation-Athens on a range of Balkans related projects and has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and post graduate qualification courses in Albania, the USA, Greece, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, England, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland and Turkey.
He is co author of the books ‘My Albania Ground Zero’ New York, 1992 and ‘Masters of Humanist Philosophy’, Tirana, 2000.
Zeljko Ivanovic is a Montenergian journalist and managing editor, co-founder and co-owner of Vijesti, the first independent daily newspaper in Montenegro, since 1997
Currently, he works on the editorial policy of the newspaper, management and human resources policy and oversight of the editoral team and is responsible for developing and coordinating the editorial and commercial side of Vijesti publishing.
Zeljko also was manging director of Monitor, the leading and only independent current affairs weekly news magazine covering Montenegrin and regional politics, from 1990 till 1997. He was editor-in-chief of Alternative Informative Network, a network of journalists and media people from all over the former Yugoslavia that covered events during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
He also worked as an editorial assistant for NIN in Montenegro and he, along with his friend founded KRUG the first political magazine in Montenegro. The magazine covered issues related to civil society and the wars in the
former Yugoslavia, with a strong anti-war slant.
