Former Partnership for Peace Fellow

Ismet Fatih Čančar holds a BA in Economics from Sarajevo School of Science and Technology and University of Buckingham, and an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London.

He currently works as a Partnership for Peace Fellow at NATO Defence College. He previously served as an Advisor to the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has worked in a number of fields, including international affairs and security, film industry, banking industry, as well as within the Chevening scholarship scheme as a Civil society task member on the Western Balkans Summit 2018 organized by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of United Kingdom.

His expertise and research interest are split between foreign affairs and international security relations, energy security and global political economy. Specifically, the Euro-Atlantic integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the geopolitics of Western Balkans political and economic relations with the US and EU, and the democratization processes and transitional state development in post-conflict societies.