Irena Bojadzievska

Irena Bojadzievska holds a PhD in e-Governance. She holds a Master of Laws in International and European Law from VUB University in Brussels. She is a lawyer with 17 years of experience in law drafting and policy making in the EU integration process. She has participated in the alignment of numerous laws and by-laws with the EU legislation as well as in the development of national strategies in line with EU best practices. Her EU experience is derived from her work in the Secretariat for EU Affairs in Macedonia, where she was involved in legal approximation, institution building and interinstitutional coordination of the Stabilization and Association Committee and Subcommittees for 9 years. She further advanced her EU policy making skills in the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (2012-2015) and the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (2015-2017). During this period, she was a trainer for the government’s EU integration process and an OSCE trainer for law drafting. She has also worked as a national and international expert and consultant, including a key expert position in an EU international project and a consultant in several international projects. She works as an attorney at a law firm and is an assistant professor at the American College of Skopje University.