Goran Buldioski is a Senior Fellow at the Hertie School, University of Governance in Berlin and a Senior Adviser at OnThinkTanks.org. Over 19 years at the Open Society Foundations (OSF), he led programming in Europe and Central Asia, as well as he was Director of the OSF Berlin Office and Director of the Think Tank Fund. He has an academic background in public policy and international relations as well as organisational behaviour. Goran is recognised for his leadership in advancing democratic governance, philanthropy, civil society as well as think tanks. Recently, he has written extensively on the nexus of democracy and defense. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Politico, Independent, Euractiv, EUobserver, Mediapart, Euronews, Die Zeit, Tagesspiegel and Project Syndicate, among others. He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).