Balkan Insight

Staff, contributing editors and board members

• Gordana Igric, BIRN Regional Director, is a veteran Belgrade journalist and winner of Overseas Press Club and Human Rights Watch awards for her reporting on human rights abuses and war crimes during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s. She later directed the award-winning Balkans program of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. With former IWPR colleagues across southeast Europe, she founded BIRN in 2005.
• Ana Petruseva, Assistant Editor, is a journalist in Skopje, Macedonia, where she is the founder and country director of BIRN Macedonia. She has worked for a wide variety of media outlets since 1997, including Reuters, Arte, Spiegel TV, Rai Uno, Deutsche Welle, Forum, covering both the Kosovo war of 1998-1999 and the Macedonian conflict of 2001. She also produces documentary films.
• Marcus Tanner, Editor and Trainer, is a journalist in London. A former assistant foreign editor and Balkans correspondent for The Independent, he covered the break-up of Yugoslavia, the fall of communism in Bulgaria and Romania, the wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and the siege of Sarajevo. His books include “Croatia: a Nation Forged in War”, “Ireland’s Holy Wars” and “The Last of the Celts”, all published by Yale University Press.
• Eric Jansson, Contributing Editor, is an American journalist based in the UK. He has reported since 1997 from central and eastern Europe and the Balkans. A former Balkans correspondent for the Financial Times and Baltics correspondent for dpa Deutsche Presse Agentur, he has also written for The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune and many other media outlets. In addition to editing, he has consulted BIRN on future development of Business Insight.
• Tim Judah, a British journalist who has covered the Balkans for The Economist, the New York Review of Books and others, is the president of the board.

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