eVAL authors
Experts in economics, evaluation, public administration and European integration who contribute to eVAL.
Jasmin Halebić holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zenica, where he has taught economic theory and policy as an associate professor. His professional experience also includes service as Minister of Finance of Sarajevo Canton.
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Zara Halilović is a European integration professional with experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s institutions. She earned a master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Sarajevo and the University of Bologna. Her work has included coordinating responses concerning EU funds for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s European Commission Questionnaire and publishing professional papers on European integration and the use of EU funds.
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Nijaz Avdukić, MSc, has professional experience in both the private and public sectors, including the food industry, trade and electricity generation. His public-sector work focuses on strategic and development planning. He has also served as a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s SDG Council.
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Rijad Kovač, PhD, is an economist and development expert. His areas of specialization include growth and regional development, public investment and economic planning. He has extensive experience in planning, strategy development, evaluation and project impact assessment, as well as consulting assignments for international organizations.
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Snežana Mišić Mihajlović, MSc, completed graduate studies in environmental sciences and public policy at Central European University in Budapest and a fellowship in social research and programme evaluation at the Evaluation Institute of George Washington University. Her expertise includes environmental governance, decentralization, civil-society development, strategic planning and the evaluation of projects and public policies.
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Marijana Sumpor, PhD, has more than two decades of professional experience, including work at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia’s Ministry of Finance and BNP-Dresdner Bank Croatia. She earned her doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Split. Her principal fields are regional policy, strategic planning and evaluation, and she has coordinated evaluator networks in Croatia and the Western Balkans.
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Ivana Rašić Bakarić, PhD, is a senior researcher in the Regional Development Department of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. She earned her doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb with a thesis on the statistical and methodological foundations for defining Croatia’s spatial-economic entities. She is active as a researcher, consultant and lecturer.
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Irena Đokić, PhD, is a researcher in the multidisciplinary Regional Development Department of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. She has lectured at several faculties and higher-education institutions in Croatia. Her research focuses on planning and programming at national, regional and local levels and on building the institutional capacities these processes require.
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Risto Ivanov holds a PhD in economics and is a certified management consultant and project manager. His career spans business, public affairs and consulting. He specializes in designing and managing practical tools for improving performance in the private and public sectors and has worked as an external evaluator for Erasmus+, cross-border cooperation programmes and other national and international projects.
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Steve Powell holds a PhD from Middlesex University in the United Kingdom and a degree in psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 2017, working for much of that period as an evaluator with proMENTE Social Research in Sarajevo and as an independent consultant. He has a particular interest in visualizing theories of change.
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Venera Gudachi has pursued doctoral studies in information technology management at the European Center for Peace and Development in Belgrade. She has extensive experience managing development projects and programmes for international organizations. Her work focuses on project development, monitoring and evaluation, qualitative analysis, strategic planning and capacity building, including the evaluation of proposals under IPA cross-border and transnational cooperation programmes.
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Edin Šabanović earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Faculty of Economics at Džemal Bijedić University of Mostar and pursued doctoral studies at the School of Economics and Business of the University of Sarajevo. His professional work at the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on survey methodology, sampling, living-standard statistics and statistical inference under non-response and missing-data conditions.
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