Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Katarina Zakić joined the Institute of International Politics and Economics in September 2018, and she is the Head of the Regional Centre Belt and Road starting from August 2021. The major fields of her research are the economic development of China, the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as intercultural management and business practice in China.
Dr. Zakić obtained the title of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business Studies in October 2017, where she was teaching several subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, and Intercultural Management, at all levels of studies. She was the director of the Chinese Centre (2013-2018) and the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation (2017-2018). Katarina defended her PhD thesis The Distinctiveness of Management in Asia-Pacific Region: Interaction of West and East Experience (Case Study: Hong Kong) within the Faculty of Business Studies (2011). She received her master’s degree in 2007 at the Faculty of Geo-economics and graduated at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade (2001).
Dr. Zakić got a Chinese scholarship Visiting China (2014), granted by Hanban, which she completed at the prestigious Nankai University in Tianjin. She also won a scholarship from the Chinese Ministry of Culture Visiting Program for Young Sinologists 2016, which was conducted in Xi′an.
Katarina was until August 2024 the Editor-in-Chief of IIPE`s journal The Review of International Affairs, where she was previously Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2019-2020). She is the author of the monograph Contemporary Management Practice in China and Serbia and co-author with Dr Nataša Stanojević of the monograph Economic Rise of China – strategy and dynamics of international relations. Dr. Zakić has published over 40 articles in domestic and foreign scientific journals and thematic proceedings. Annual conferences called Dialogues on China are organized within the centre she manages.
She is a team member which is conducting project Contributing to Modern Partnerships: Assessments of Sino-EU-Serbian Relations – COMPASS, financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (grant no. 7294, implementation period: 2023-2025).
Dr. Zakić is fluent in English.
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katarina-Zakic
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GXYMZK0AAAAJ&hl=en