Lead Experts

DR. DUŠAN RELJIĆ

❑ Dušan is an advisor on European affairs in Brussels and Berlin. From 2013 to 2023 , he was Head of the Brussels office of the German Institute for International and Security Studies (SWP), Germany's largest think tank in the field of foreign affairs.
❑ He has extensive experience in the media sector, having served as Head of the Media and Democracy Programme at the European Media Institute (EIM), Senior Editor at Radio Free Europe in Munich, Foreign Editor at the Belgrade weekly newspaper Vreme, and co-founder of the Beta Press Agency in Belgrade.
❑ Dušan specialises in international relations and security, with a focus on the EU, Germany, East and Southeast Europe. 

 

DR. MIKLOS SZANYI

❑ Miklós is one of Europe's leading experts on Central and Eastern European studies. He is the former Director (and currently Senior Research Advisor) of the Institute of World Economy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS ) and Vice-Chair of the HAS World Economy Research Council. He also serves on the editorial boards of several Hungarian and international scientific journals. He teaches at the University of Szeged in Hungary.
❑ His main research areas include transition, institutional development, and trends in foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe, comparison of state capitalist and authoritarian political economies and technological change and long-term patterns of economic growth and development 

Expert

Chelsea Toczauer, MP 

❑ Chelsea is a US-China expert and AI policy, Emerging Tech, Business & Policy Consultant. She has over eight years of consulting experience in the areas of emerging technology, international security, supply chains and global affairs.

❑ She is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR） and has received multiple fellowships, including the Microsoft Fellowship, the Johns Hopkins Future Leader Fellowship, the Hassenfeld Fellowship, and the Nanjing City Fellowship.

❑ She is proficient in Chinese and Russian.