Nerma Jelacic
Director for Management and External Relations
Ms. Jelacic oversees relationships with policy, political and diplomatic actors as well as civil society and the media. She is also responsible for securing the resources necessary for the functioning of the organisation in addition to sound project management. Ms. Jelacic joined CIJA in 2014 from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she ran communications and outreach programmes for over six years. With twenty years’ experience in transitional justice and efforts to redress violations of international law, she has been deployed as a consultant on transitional justice issues in a number of conflict-affected settings including Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Uganda, and Egypt. She was the first director and co-founder of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an award-winning media NGO specialising in investigation of war crimes, organised crime and corruption. Widely recognised as an expert on adapting transitional justice models to the realities on the ground, Ms. Jelacic specialises in securing governmental, media, victims’ and larger public support for and understanding of the concepts of justice and accountability. Having worked as a London-based journalist in the 1990s, most notably for The Observer and The Financial Times, Ms. Jelacic is also a seasoned investigative reporter specialising in the subjects of war crimes and organised crime.