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Professor Dragana Mitrović, PhD

IAS Founder and IAS President

Professor Dragana Mitrović, PhD

Dragana Mitrović, PhD, full-time professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, Faculty of Political Sciences and founder and director of the Institute for Asian Studies, is a leading regional expert on the economy, politics and security of modern China and East Asia. She is the founder and head of the Centre for Asian and Far Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences. She is the founder and chief editor of the academic journal Asian Issues.

Email: dragana.mitrovic@ias.rs

Frank Dhont

Associated Professor Frank Dhont, PhD (Yale University, USA), Senior Research Fellow of IAS

Frank Dhont

Frank Dhont is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University. He previously worked as Senior Lecturer in FASS-IAS, the University of Brunei Darussalam, has been Visiting Fellow at TU Dortmund University and at City University of Hong Kong. He works on Indonesia and the broader Malay world. As a historian of the 20th century his major research interests include the reactions of both indigenous rulers and ordinary people to Japanese colonialism in the Netherlands Indies and the Malay world during World War II.

Dr. Jagannath Panda

Senior Research Fellow, IAS

Dr. Jagannath Panda

Dr. Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Centre for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Sweden. He is also the Director for Europe-Asia Research Cooperation at the YCAPS, Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), The Hague; and an International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) in Japan.

Giovanni Nicotera

BA in Law

IAS member

Giovanni Nicotera

Mr. Nicotera served with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) from 1997 to 2012. At the UN headquarters in Vienna he held several positions, including servicing the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Operations Branch. Later, from 2005 to 2012, he was the Head of the UNODC Office in the People’s Republic of China. Before joining the UN he worked in the Russian Federation and, previous to that, in Italy as a lawyer.

Associated Professor Srđan Perišić,

PhD

IAS Senior Research Fellow

Srđan Perišić

Srđan Perišić, PhD, graduated at the Military Academy in Belgrade. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in two scientific realms – Political Theory and Methodology of Political Sciences. The title of his dissertation was: “Liberalism as a Constraint to Modern Democracy.

Ivan Zarić

PhD
IAS member

Ivan Zarić

Ivan Zarić, PhD, graduated at the Military Academy, Naval Department. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, International Relations Department, in the area of Geopolitics and Geostrategy. His PhD thesis was “Thalassocratic dimension of contemporary Chinese geopolitics”.

Bojan Stanković

BA in Political Science
IAS member

Bojan Stanković

BA in Political Science
IAS member

Email: bojan.stankovic@ias.rs

Ambassador Teruhiko Shinada

IAS Special Adviser

Ambassador Teruhiko Shinada

Teruhiko Shinada served in the diplomatic service of Japan for more than 40 years. Education: Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan. As a diplomat, he was in numerous oversees positions: the Embassy of Japan in Belgrade (1980-86, 1992-95, 2006-10), the Office of High Representative in Sarajevo (1996), Japan’s Mission to the U.N. in New York (1997-98), Embassy of Japan in Vienna (1999-2001).

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