Biography
Jelena Džankić is Programme Director for the Widening Europe Programme and the CIVICA Alliance at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is also Director of GGP Southeastern Europe and Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) at the Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre. Jelena holds a PhD degree in International Studies from the University of Cambridge, and has taught and researched at the University of Edinburgh, University College London, University of Fribourg, and Central European University.
She is the author of the Global Market for Investor Citizenship (Palgrave 2019), a leading study in the field of wealth-based citizenship acquisition, and Citizenship in Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges (Routledge, 2015), a study of citizenship in contested post-partition states. Jelena edited a number of collaborative volumes, including, A Year Later: War in Ukraine and Western Balkan (geo)politics (2022, with S. Kacarska and S. Keil) and Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A failure of EU Conditionality (2019, with S. Keil and M. Kmezić).
She has published in outlets such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Nationalities Papers, and International Migration Review. She has been cited in media outlets, including Financial Times, Bloomberg Business, CNN, El Pais, Times Magazine, and Euronews.