Goran Fejić

Note: Goran Fejić is a former member of staff.

Job Title: Senior Advisor, Strategy and Policy

Joined International IDEA in February, 2005.

Nationality: France

Programme: Secretary-General's Office

Office: Stockholm (HQ)

Expertise at International IDEA:

• Democracy and Conflict management
• Analysis of global democracy trends
• Democracy and Diversity
• Democracy and Development

Experience:

• Served in the diplomatic service of the former Yugoslavia (1973-91)
• Second Secretary, Embassy in Rome 1974-79
• First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the UN, Geneva 1983-87
• Deputy Director for Multilateral Organisations 1987-1988
• Director, EU Department and Special Advisor to the Minister 1989-1991
• In disagreement with the Milosevic regime, resigned in 1991 and went into exile in France
• Joined the UN in his personal capacity in 1992
• Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the UN Department of Economic and Social Development (DESD) in UNHQ, New York
• Advisor and Regional Coordinator in several UN peace-keeping, peace-building and electoral missions (MICIVIH-Haiti, UNOMSA-South Africa, MINUGUA-Guatemala and UNAMA-Afghanistan) where he managed multi-national and multi-disciplinary teams of experts and observers (1993-2003)
• Extensive experience in post-conflict institutional reconstruction and human rights
• Collaborated with the international cultural journal Transeuropéennes in Paris and contributed articles to other publications in France, Italy, India and the former Yugoslavia.

Education:

• Academic degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Zagreb.

Languages: French, English, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian (native speaker)

Publications:

• Chapter "On the Hague Conference" in "Divided Countries, Separated Cities : The Modern Legacy of Partition"/edited by Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes and Rada Ivekovic. Reprint. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003, x, 192 p., ISBN 0-19-566540-6.
• Histoire d'une politique du pire in Transeuropeennes No 16, Paris 2001
• Enjeux de la construction d'un Etat de droit en Afghanistan in "Lignes" No 12, Paris 2003, ISBN : 2-84938-000-8

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