Milena Stošić

Milena Stošić (she/her) is a senior consultant focusing on public participation, the Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) agenda, and intersectionality. Appointed as the historically first OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office (CiO) Special Representative on Youth and Security, she played a pivotal role in youth mainstreaming across the OSCE, alongside fieldwork on youth portfolio in the Western Balkans. With the ICRC in South Africa, she contributed to steering an outcome-based approach within the humanitarian delivery cycle. Since the beginning of her professional career, rooted in youth organising and a decolonised worldview, she has (co-)authored numerous resources in the fields of youth policy, project and grant management, and youth rights. She has produced work in the field of democratisation, human rights, gender equality, peacebuilding and youth, for UN Women, IOM, ODIHR, GIZ, RYCO etc. Research-wise she is focused on feminist security, gender mainstreaming and intersection among UNSC’s Women, Peace and Security and Youth, Peace and Security agendas.