Alma Mašić

With a degree in Company Administration and Management from Trinity College and University (Delaware, USA) and a Senior Chevening Fellowship in Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts at the University of York, Alma Mašić is widely recognised in the Balkans as a key person in matters of transitional justice and human rights. She is an expert in civil society and development and has more than twenty-five years of professional experience in international organisations and NGOs working in conflict and post-conflict situations in the Western Balkans. She has extensive experience in humanitarian aid for refugees, development policies for young people. From 2000 to 2005 she was a member of the executive council of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also a bilateral aid advisor for the Danish embassy in Sarajevoand for ten years she was director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina (YIHRBH). At present, she is working as an expert in the area of organisational development for city councils and representatives of civil society in post-war zones in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Eastern Ukraine.