Biography - Savić Marko

Marko Savic was born on 23.04.1990. in Niksic, where he finished elementary and high school "Stojan Cerovic" as the holder of a diploma Luca I.

He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, the University of Montenegro with an average score of 9.50. He graduated from the topic "Russian foreign policy towards the Middle East from 2008 to 2013" at the Department of International relations and Diplomacy with an average score of 9.63.

Since September 2014, he has engaged as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Political Science on subjects in the field of international relations, international economic relations, history of the Balkan relations, electoral and party systems.

He has finished his Master studies with topic "Russian geopolitics and the Balkans" at the Faculty of Political Sciences in 2017, Department of International Relations, with an average score of 10.

During his studies, he was the editor of the first student portal in Montenegro "Tragom" and one of the founders of the Student Council of the Faculty of Political Sciences. He has also achieved a number of successes, including participation in the European Forum Alpbach, Austria, internship/practice in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, and through various projects and exchanges he was at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, and at Roehampton University London. He has received several scholarships, including Atlas scholarship, comprehensive European Forum Alpbach scholarship for young leaders, a scholarship of the Ministry of Education (Government of Montenegro), a scholarship of the municipality of Niksic. He is a scholarship holder of the Mevlana program for the school year 2016/2017, through which he lectured at the Faculty of Political Science and Administration at Katip Çelebi University in Izmir.

In the past few years he has accomplished a range of expert engagements, including the most important:

- engagement in the Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI) within the Public Policy Research Department as the Director of the Department;

- engagement in the Secretariat-General of the Government of Montenegro as an Expert for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning;

- election and media expert in the CeMI mission for monitoring the parliamentary elections in Montenegro 2016;

- Senior Media Analyst Assistant in the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observertion Mission during the 2018 presidential elections in Montenegro;

- expert for political participation, Center for Democracy and Human Rights;

- expert engagement at the Cetinje Parliamentary Forum 2017.

He is an author of several published scientific papers in the field of international relations, a participant in several scientific conferences, schools, and seminars.

He is fluent in English and Russian and he has basic knowledge of Italian.

Scientific papers, conferences, training:

• TRAIN (Training and Research for Academic Newcomers), Univerzitet Crne Gore, Podgorica, November 2013.
• Sixth International Conference "International Dialogue: East-West", Sveti Nikole, Macedonia, 17-18. April 2015. Vukicevic, Savic, The Balkans in the Geopolitical Strategies of Great Powers: the Case of Post-independence Montenegro, available on http://mcsp.mk/publications/6_konferencija.html
• TRAIN - Training and Research for Academic Newcomers (Project Writing Module, Methodology of Scientific Research Module), Univerzitet Crne Gore, September 2015.
• Savić, Marko, Finansiranje političkih partija u Crnoj Gori, Centar za monitoring i istraživanje, Mart 2016, p. 42-46
• Vukicevic, Savic, Lessons (not) learned: Russia’s relations with Serbia and Montenegro after the split of the State Union, Konferencija "Instrumentalizing the Recent Past in Foreign Policy ", Bucharest, Romania, October 2016.
• Savic, Popovic, Presidentialization of the Newly-formed Political Parties in Montenegro, Second Balkan Comparative Electoral Study - International Scientific Conference “The Presidentialization of Political Parties in the Western Balkans”, 17-18th of February 2017, Budva, Montenegro.
• Savić, Popović, Presidentialization of political parties and intra-party democracy in Montenegro, Centar za monitoring i istraživanje, 2017, avaliable at: http://cemi.org.me/product/prezidencijalizacija-politickih-partija-unutarstranacka-demokratija-u-crnoj-gori/ (publication)
• Scientific Conference “The Balkans in the Geopolitical Strategies of Great Powers” - Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey, March 2017
• Long-term observers training, OSCE, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2016
• National Democratic Institute (NDI) CEE Election Monitoring Academy, May 15-17, Belgrade, Serbia
• Expert Engagement (new media, democracy in digitalization era, media in the post-truth era), Cetinje Parliamentary Regional Forum, December 2017, Cetinje, Montenegro 
• Kordić, Srzentić, Mrdak, Vukčević, Brnović, Bulatović, Vukić, Perazić, Savić, Methodology for the development, drafting and monitoring of implementation of strategic documents, Secretariat General of the Government of Montenegro, 2018.
• Savic, Marko, Euroepan Union in the era of diseased borders. Has the European Union failed to support the „transit“ countries?, Engelberg Academy, Switzerland, October 2018.