Jana Faktor Juzová is a Senior Research Fellow at EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy and an independent consultant in international projects focused on the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and EU enlargement policy. Her previous work experience involved Central European think tanks and EULEX EU’s Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Brussels and ReThink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In her research, she focuses primarily on the Western Balkans, EU enlargement policy, Europeanization and democratization in the region, and regional cooperation formats in Central and Eastern Europe.