Tanja Jakobi

Ms. Tanja Jakobi, executive director. She has joined the CENTRE in autumn 2010 as a communication specialist and researcher focused on discourse, discrimination and social issues. Since 2015, she assumed the role of project manager. From October 2016. she served as the ad interim director of the CENTRE. Since March 2017. she serves as the executive director of the CENTRE.

She is the member of several working groups within the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) and follows ERP and ESRP for the CENTRE.

Jakobi is currently working on the following CENTRE’s project: Addressing Firearms Misuse and its Impact on Gender-based Violence through Civic Action and Policy Advocacy (2016/2017), "Documenting new experiences of “Otherness” and advocating for successful integration of Roma migrants through better education/employment policies“ (2016/2017), Local Security and Role of MPs, (2017.)

She was involved in the following CENTRE’s projects: How does Security Sector Reform Affect Human Security in Serbia? Reassessing the impact on LGBT.Security issues within Serbian 2016 election campaign (2016), Towards efficient budget policies on local level - budget line 481 donation to NGOs (2015), Youth’s Local Security Issues and Democratic Control of Security Sector (2015), Inclusion of Roma Women and Men in Security Sector: Towards Greater Enrolment to Basic Police Training (2015), Roma women and men and security sector reform in the Republic of Serbia (2014), Mapping non-discrimination discourse in military education in the Republic of Serbia (2012/13).

Ms. Jakobi has 28+ years of experience in journalism, as a reporter, editor and editor in chief in major Serbian media and has been working as a journalism trainer and correspondent for foreign media, such are the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Institutional Investor. She worked as a researcher for the first long documentary by the national TV B92, “Serbia in a Container” and serial “Who Killed Ante Marković” dedicated to the failures of the reforms in the former Yugoslavia and Serbia. She often appears in Serbian and foreign media as interlocutor and analyst. She is the editor in Weekly Economic Bulletin since 1996.

Since early 2000, she has been working as an economic and communication consultant in various fields from ecology to the reform of the judiciary and human rights which were financed by the UNDP, the European Commission atc. She also worked on communication strategies and CSR strategies for other clients in the state and private sector.

She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy, and obtained her master degree from the Baruch College in New York in the field of economic journalism and public finances. She was awarded the American state Ron Brown Fellowship and was one of the first scholars of The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) NGO founded by economist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

In 2016, Jakobi successfully concluded online training on “Doing Policy Relevant Research” for senior researchers within the Organizational development grant from the Think Tank Fund.

Selected works:

S.Djurdjevic Lukic, J. Radoman, T.Jakobi, J.Sapic, Election Monitoring: Political parties on security issues, Public Policy Research Centre, Belgrade, April 2016.
T. Jakobi (ur) Soft Censorship: From bad to worse (editor) BIRN, Belgrade, 2016.
T. Jakobi, Censorship, Autocensorship and (Self)Destruction of Media, in S. Mihailović, (ur.) Od novinara do nadničara. Prekarni rad i život. Beograd: Centre for the development of trade unionism, Open society Foundation, and Dan Graf, Belgrade, 2015.
T. Jakobi, Precariat and unions in the context of the adoption of the new Labour Law, research of media imputs, The Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 2014.
T. Jakobi, "How media reported about the research on transition", in S. Mihailovic (ur) Transition from socialism to capitalism in Serb. Dometi tranzicije od socijalizma ka kapitalizmu Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Belgrade, Belgrade 2011
T.Jakobi, "Standard of living: Confused and Disoriented, in S. Mihailovic (ur). Kako građani vide tranziciju, 20 godina od socijalizma ka kapitalizmu" (How citizens perceive transition, 20 years of transition form socialism to capitalism), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Belgrade, Belgrade 2010
A. Andonov, (ur) Research: Media and discrimination in Serbia Commissioner for Protection Equality, Belgrade, 2012.
A. Kovacevic (ur) "Stuck in the past", Energy, Environment and Poverty in Serbia and Montenegro UNDP Belgrade, 2004
T. Jakobi, Sovereign Bankruptcy: Serbia and Montenegro, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, New York, 2001
T. Jakobi, Privatization: Serbia Initiative for Policy Dialogue, New York, 2001

Newest publication

Perspectives of Serbia in the knowledge-based economy

Position paper, Conference "The Future of Work - The Future is Now", 2018, Author: Vladan Ivanovic

Svetlana Đurđević Lukić PROGRAMME AND FOUNDATION

Uncertainty and vulnerability of the individual in the 21st century is the focus of CENTAR’s Human Security Programme. Building on foundations set by the recently departed co-founder and longtime director of CENTAR, Svetlana Đurđević Lukić, CENTAR regards security as a human right and advocates for construing a society in which every individual will have opportunities to reach their potential. Svetlana had a talent of pioneering the introduction of many topics – primarily concerned with the security of vulnerable groups – into security discourse within Serbia. Fostering this approach, starting from 2016, CENTAR, as part of its foundation named after the late Svetlana, holds a competition with the goal of inspiring young researchers to examine modern day threats.