BELGRADE – SERBIA

500+ participants / 80+ speakers / 16+ panels
BSC2024

18-20 November / SAVA CENTER
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Day 3

Beyond Ideology: Organised Crime and Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans

11:15 – 12:15

Fatjona Mejdini

Director of the South Eastern Europe Observatory, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Fatjona Mejdini has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Tirana University and as a well a master’s degree in Public Administration. After a long career as a journalist for national media in Albania, she was awarded with Hubert H. Humphrey scholarship and spend a year of professional development in DC, US. In 2015 she joined Balkan Insight as a correspondent, reporting stories from different Balkans countries. In 2016 she also co-established Investigative Journalism Lab, an initiative to develop quality journalism for Albanian young journalists. She joined GI as a field coordinator for the Balkans in September 2018.