Moderator: Gazela Pudar Draško

Gazela Pudar Draško is a political sociologist, a Director at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Currently, she is engaged on Volkswagen Stiftung sponsored project Cultures of Rejections in Europe and Horizons 2020 project Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies. She serves as an Executive Board Member of the Institute for Democratic Engagement Southeast Europe (IDESE) and Coordinating Board Member of the Network for Academic Solidarity and Engagement (MASA). She has been engaged as consultant and researcher in numerous projects with international organizations like UNDP, UNHCR, Council of Europe, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, etc. She writes on the intellectual engagement, social movements and gender.