Program for the School of Public Policy Mother Teresa 2026 Spring Seminar: Public Policy Making in Times of Global Changes and the Rising Multipolar Order


Lecturers of the Seminar

  1. Viktor Mizo, President of the Foreign Investors Council within the auspices of the Economic Chamber of Macedonia.
  2. Dalibor Jovanovski, Professor at Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
  3. Zhidas Daskalovski, Director of the School of Public Policy Mother Teresa
  4. Prof. Irena Stefovska, Institute of National History, former Minister of Culture
  5. Rabie W. Sedrak, Institute for International Strategic & Security Studies
  6. Prof. Marija Milenkovska, Faculty of Security-Skopje, St. Kliment Ohridski University
  7. Prof. Katerina Veljanovska Blazhevska, MIT University Skopje

Moderator

  1. Prof. Dalibor Jovanovski, Professor at Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University

Head of Logistics

  1. Zharko Cvetkovski, Center for Research and Policy Making, Project Coordinator of School of Public Policy “Mother Teresa”

Program for the weekend seminar

Friday (17.04.2026)

15:00 Departure from Skopje Parking lot opposite of the Makpetrol gas station near the Skopje Railway and Bas Station

18:30 Arrival in Ohrid, Hotel Garden

19:00-20:30 Dinner

20:30 Prof. Zhidas Daskalovski

Saturday (18.04.2026)

8:00- Breakfast

09:30 – 11:00 Viktor Mizo, “From Harvard Business School to managing a DJ, from managing Invest Macedonia to being a Vice President of Government Affairs at KOSTAL Group-globalisation ”

11.00-11:30 Break

11:30- 13:00 Prof. Katerina Veljanovska Blazhevska, From Polarization to Dialogue: How a Multi-Stakeholder Approach Builds Trust in Times of Democratic Decline

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Prof. Irena Stefoska, “Borders and People in global times, the Macedonian-Greek Border as a case study”

15:30-17:00 Work in Groups

17:00-18:30 Prof. Dalibor Jovanovski “Геополитиката на Грција од 1844 година до денес”

18:30-19:00 Break

19:00-20:30 Rabie W. Sedrak, Global conflicts, tectonic changes in the world order

20:30-End of Day 2, Dinner and Free time

Sunday (19.04.2026)

9:00-10.30 Breakfast

10:30-12:00 Prof. Marija Milenkovska, “Националниот наратив, креирање на политики и однесувањето на државата”

12:00-12:30 Break

12:30-13:00 Evaluations, End of the Seminar

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00 Departure