Ljubisa Vrencev is the co-founder of Symbiosis-School of Political Studies in Greece, affiliated to the Council of Europe Network of Schools. Since 1997 he has worked with national and international NGOs on local development, intercultural communication and media, reconciliation and forced displacement in Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo*, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. He also worked with UNOPS, UNDP, Cooperazione Italiana and International Organization for Migration. He holds an MA in Local Development for the Balkans from Trento/Bolzano Universities. Currently the Director of Arbeiter Samariter Bund Country Office in Greece, since June 2016 he has managed refugee response funded by DG HOME, DG ECHO and the German Foreign Ministry. He has been a lecturer on diversity and communication for migrant communities and authored papers on development and migration issues. He speaks fluently South Slavic languages, English, Italian and Greek.
*All references to Kosovo, whether the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.