Jakov Žižić is the Executive Director of the Academy for Political Development in Croatia. His main academic interests include Croatian politics and modern Croatian political history, but he is also interested more generally in the politics of identity, the politics of recognition, multiculturalism, diaspora, and the activities of those in political exile. His most recent written contributions were to "Policy Insight", a new political magazine in Croatia. Mr Žižić has previously worked at the Croatian Parliament and in the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. He holds a Masters in Political Science from the University of Zagreb and is currently working towards a PhD in Comparative Politics.