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= Jelena Milić =

Jelena Milić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Милић; born 15 January 1965) is a Serbian political analyst, lobbyist and founder of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) in Belgrade, which monitors and analyzes trends in liberal Western democracies and advocates full and active membership in the European Union and NATO since its founding in 2007. She is an expert in the field of security system reform; relations between Serbia and the EU; relations between Serbia and NATO; Russian influence in the Western Balkans; Kosovo and the links between violent changes of government, transitional justice and security system reform. Due to her expertise, Milić is a frequent keynote speaker at high-level international conferences dealing with EU, NATO, US and South East Europe affairs.

Personal life
She was married to Nenad Milić, former Assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs Dušan Mihajlović in the government of Zoran Đinđić, and an official of the Liberal Democratic Party. Jelena has two children with Nenad, Sava and Ana.

Education
Jelena graduated Engineering and Security Management in 2017, and obtained her master's degree in the same field of study in 2020 at the UNION-Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade. She is also an alumni of the International Academy for Leadership Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung (IAF) and has obtained a fellowship at Paris based Research center CERI at Science Po University.

Career
Milić is endorsed as a regional expert in the DisinfoPortal, project of the US Atlantic Council, whereas the organization under her leadership, CEAS is the only regional organization among other 22 organizations, all partners in this project. The scope of work of CEAS covers issues relevant to Serbia's process towards fortifying liberal democratic institutions and becoming a respected actor in the international communality through the EU and NATO membership, therefore its aim as an NGO is to promote the EU and NATO alliance and their values, while attracting great media attention. She is an influential political analyst in Serbia and in the region of the Western Balkans. In 2017, Jelena Milić was designated as part of POLITICO's class, a list of 28 most influential people who with their work are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe.

In the mid-2000s, she was Goran Svilanović's secretary when he was employed by the Stability Pact for South East Europe Department for democracy and human rights, and in 2007 she founded the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies and became its director. Earlier, she worked as a political analyst and researcher for the International Crisis Group, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and as a repatriation officer of UNHCR. She often appears in the role of speaker at numerous international conferences on Southeast Europe, the Western Balkans, international relations, security systems and transitional justice, such as the 2BS Forum in Montenegro, the GLOBSEC Forum in Slovakia, the World Movement for Democracy in Korea etc.

In the late 90s she took part in a non-violent student- led movement ,OTPOR (resistance), which significantly contributed to the defeat of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Milić emerged as a producer in a documentary movie, paying tribute to this movement, named "Obaranje Diktatora"( Bringing Down a Dictator), which is part of the original series "A Force More Powerful", a project of the US broadcaster PBS, supported by the American Institute for peace and Albert Einstein Organization.

Work
Jelena Milić is a leading researcher and author of prominent CEAS reports, the most notable of which are: "Eyes Wide Shut – Strengthening of the Russian Soft Power in Serbia – goals, instruments and effects"(May 2016), "Basic instinct: even greater NATO's political engagement in the Western Balkans" (September 2017) and "West Side Story - CEAS proposal for the correction of the administrative line between Serbia and Kosovo, agreed in a format under the auspices of West"(June 2018). Her analysis articles have been also published in well-known journals such as The National Interest, The Diplomat , and The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). In addition to regular articles, interviews and blogs for local and regional media, she is frequently quoted by foreign media as well, such as Märkische Oderzeitung, Handelsblatt, Spiegel and New Eastern Europe, a bimonthly magazine on Central and Eastern European relations. In this magazine there is also an article on the Russification of Serbia written by her in 2014.

Milić is working as a columnist as well, and maintains OP/ED column in a leading Serbian newspaper Danas and a blog on BlicOnline, an online portal in Serbia. Likewise, she writes columns for Al Jazeera Balkans, such as:  German conditions for Serbia's European path  ,  Why Putin should not come to Serbia  , ' 'Jovanka Broz - the last symbol of SFRY '' etc.

Other policy and research papers:

 * "The Elephant in the Room: Incomplete Security Sector Reform in Serbia and its Consequences for Serbian Domestic and Foreign Policies"
 * "In a Snake's Nest"
 * "The Terror-Stricken Will"
 * "Why a public debate on Serbia’s NATO membership is needed"
 * "Sad Stream"