Jelena Milić

Jelena Milić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Милић; born 15 January 1965) is a Serbian political analyst and diplomat. Milić was the Serbian ambassador to Croatia from 2022 until March 2025, and founder of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS), a Belgrade-based think tank.

Education Milić received a degree in Engineering and Security Management and obtained her master's degree in the same field of study in 2020 from the UNION-Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade. She is also an alumna of the International Academy for Leadership Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung (IAF) and has obtained a fellowship at Paris based Research center CERI at Sciences Po University.

Career In the late 1990s she took part in a non-violent student-led movement, OTPOR (Resistance), which significantly contributed to the defeat of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Milić worked as a producer in a documentary about the movement entitled "Obaranje Diktatora" (Bringing Down a Dictator), which is part of the original series "A Force More Powerful", a project of the US broadcaster PBS, supported by the American Institute for peace and Albert Einstein Organization. It ceased operations in 2021.

Milić is endorsed as a regional expert in the DisinfoPortal, project of the US Atlantic Council, whereas the organization under her leadership, CEAS is the only regional organization among other 22 organizations, all partners in this project.

On 16 March 2022, Milić was named as Serbia's ambassador to Croatia.

Work and publications Selected policy and research papers "Eyes Wide Shut: Strengthening of the Russian Soft Power in Serbia – goals, instruments and effects" "West Side Story: CEAS proposal for the correction of the administrative line between Serbia and Kosovo, agreed in a format under the auspices of West" "In a Snake's Nest" "The Terror-Stricken Will" "Why a public debate on Serbia's NATO membership is needed" "Sad Stream"

Her analysis articles have been also published in well-known journals such as The National Interest, The Diplomat, and The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). and a blog on Blic, an online portal in Serbia. Likewise, she writes columns for Al Jazeera Balkans.