Dr Orhan Dragaš
Dr Orhan Dragaš is a Serbian expert on security and international relations. He is the founder and director of the International Security Institute, based in Belgrade (www.isi-see.org). He is the author of numerous expert articles, newspaper columns, as well as the books “The Modern Intelligence-Security Community, Utopia or Reality”, “Two Faces of Globalization - Truth and Deceptions”, “The End of the Russian World - Russia, Ukraine, Balkans” and “Russia – From a Failed State to a Rogue State”, “Ukraine – Crime without punishment”
Dr Orhan Dragaš was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia. He finished elementary school in Dragaš (Yugoslavia, Kosovo), high school for electrical engineering in Prizren and college (graduate technologist) in Belgrade. He received his PhD in 2014 at the European University of Brussels on "Modern National Security Systems and the Intelligence and Security Community". He continued his post-doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), course “Business, International Relations and the Political Economy” (2018), Yale University (Yale School of Management), “Accelerated Management Programme” (2019), Oxford University's "Executive Leadership Programme" (2020), Harvard University (Harvard BOK), “Higher Education Teaching Certificate” (2021), as well as at Harvard Business School, course Strategy Execution (2022).
He is married to Nena, with whom he has four children, a daughter Anđela and sons Luka, Andrej and Stefan.
Dr Dragaš is the founder of the International Security Institute, based in Belgrade. This expert, non-governmental organisation brings together experts in the fields of law, security, diplomacy, economics, communications ... and cooperates with numerous governmental and expert organisations in Serbia, the Balkans and Southeast Europe. He is involved in research and consulting in the fields of politics, security and international integration, especially the EU and NATO.
Dr Dragaš is the European Commission’s (EU) expert for migrations and internal affairs. He is member of Chatham House (UK), The Royal Institute of International Affairs and member of RUSI - Royal United Services Institute (UK).
In early 2005, he founded the Faculty of Diplomacy and Security, the first of such profile in Eastern Europe. As lecturers, the most influential professors, scientists and researchers from Serbia and the countries of the region worked at the Academy.
He publishes interviews and columns in the media in Serbia, Balkans and worldwide on current political, economy and security topics, and articles on international relations and security in scientific journals and expert conferences.
