Ksenija joined the CEP team through the Think Tank Young Professional Development Program under the auspices of the Open Society Foundations Think Tank Fund in 2013 and was working on a research pertaining to the law harmonization in the area of free movement of goods and Serbia’s membership negotiations. She later completed the blue book traineeship at the European Commission’s General Department for Agriculture and spent a year working at the European Food Safety Authority in Parma. Currently, she is the Communication Officer at COPA COGECA , the largest EU lobby for agriculture, based in Brussels. Ksenija completed her BA degree in International Cooperation for Development at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, was awarded a scholarship from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, where she graduated with a MSc. in European Studies. During her master studies she developed a deep interest in European Union policy making, which was an additional asset to gain a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a trilingual Diploma in Advanced European Studies at the European College of Parma Foundation. Ksenija speaks fluent English, Italian and Spanish and has a working knowledge of German and French.
