Why is it – after decades of anti-corruption programs and pressure for reforms – that corruption, apparently, remains such a feature in the Macedonian system? Join the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute on February 2 in a conversation with Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister for Good Governance Slavica Grkovska. FPI Senior Fellow Edward P. Joseph, who authored a major report on corruption in North Macedonia, will moderate this important conversation.
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About the Speakers
Slavica Grkovska was born on July 27th, 1970, in Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje and later she obtained the title Master of Science in Mathematics.
In the period 1995-2002 she worked as junior assistant in mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics within the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Afterwards, 2002-2011 she was Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia.
During her term as an MP, she was president of the Commission on Education, Science and Sports, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and deputy member of the Committee on European Affairs. Furthermore, she was deputy president of the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the EU-Republic of Macedonia.
In the period 2013-2014 she worked as chief administrative director additionally responsible for human resources and legal affairs in the company for information technologies “EIN-SOF LLC”.
As of March 2015, Grkovska worked as human resources management in the IT company “VOX Teneo Macedonia DOO”. In the period 2008-2021 she was appointed head of the human resources department for Belgium, Indonesia, and North Macedonia within the same company.
In the period between May 2021 until her appointment as Deputy Prime Minister in charge of good governance policies in the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, she was the chief systemic analyst in the Sector for Information Technology, department of informatics and telecommunications in the Ministry of the Interior.
Edward P. Joseph is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute and Adjunct Lecturer at SAIS, specializing in Conflict Management. During the wars in former Yugoslavia, Edward served on the ground in each conflict-afflicted country: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and then-Macedonia.
In May, 2012, as the US-nominated, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Edward negotiated a breakthrough agreement between Belgrade and Pristina to hold Serbian national elections in Kosovo, averting a crisis and creating a novel precedent that lasted a decade.
Edward has authored dozens of articles and reports on the region, including in SAIS Review. His June, 2023 Foreign Policy article, ‘The United States is Creating a Kosovo Crisis’ described the overlooked obstacle to establishing autonomy for Kosovo Serbs. Edward was the lead author on the January, 2021 SAIS-Wilson Center report explaining how the European non-recognizers (of Kosovo) stymie the entire region, and setting out a corrective strategy.
Edward has led and currently serves on the Board of the National Council on US-Libya Relations. Edward earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law, and his B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and its School of Advanced International Studies.