Simonida Kacarska
Simonida Kacarska is Director of the European Policy Institute (EPI), a think tank based in Skopje, North Macedonia. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Leeds and a Master of Arts in European Politics from the Sussex European Institute, both in the United Kingdom. She has 20 years of experience related to the political transformation and European integration of the Balkans in government, academia, and the think tank sector. Her publication record includes both academic and policy-related research. She is a regular media contributor and provides consultancy services to international organisations. In 2017 and 2018 she was a Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Since the beginning of 2024, she has been involved in the European Economic and Social Committee’s pilot project, which invites representatives of civil society organisations from EU candidate countries to become “enlargement candidate members”.
