Anis H. BajrektarevicModern Diplomacy Advisory Board,ChairmanFormer legal practitioner and the pres-ident of Young Lawyers Association ofBiH Bar (late 1980s). Former MFA offi-cial and career diplomat (early 1990s).Research Fellow at the Institute forModern Political-history analyses, Dr.Bruno Kreisky Foundation as well asthe Legal and Political Advisor for CEEat the Vienna-based Political Academy,Dr. Karl Renner (mid 1990s).Senior Legal Officer and PermanentRepresentative to the UN Office in Vi-enna of the Intergovernmental Organ-

ization ICMPD (1990s). Attached to the IMC University of Austria as aProfessor and Chairman for Intl. Law and Global Political Studies (2000s –10s).For past 15 years, he teaches subjects of Geo-political Affairs, InternationalLaw (including Intl. Relations, Law of IOs and EU Law) and Sustainable De-velopment (Institutions and Instruments of ). Besides, he served as a probono expert numerous academic institutions, think-tanks and intergov-ernmental institutions (such as the UN ECE, OSCE, Council of Europe, Amer-ican Bar, Oxford Academy of Total Intelligence, etc.). Professor is editor ofthe NY-based GHIR (Geopolitics, History and Intl. Relations) journal and ed-itorial board member of numerous similar magazines on three continents.The International Institute IFIMES has recently entrusted him as its Depart-ment Head for Strategic Studies on Asia, and its Permanent Representativeto Austria and Vienna-based IOs. Prof. Bajrektarevic is the author of dozens presentations, publications,speeches, seminars, research colloquiums as well as of numerous publicevents (round tables & study trips, etc.). His writings are frequently pub-lished on all five continents (in over 50 countries and in 20 languages).Author of the book Is There Life After Facebook? - Geopolitics of Energyand other Foreign Policy Essays (Addleton Academic Publishers, New York,2013), and the forthcoming book No Asian Century.He lives in Vienna, Austria.Prof. Anis BajrektarevicProfessor and Chairperson Intl. Law & Global Political StudiesE-mail: anis[at]bajrektarevic.eu

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