Katarina Zrinjski

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Head of Programmes, BIRN BiH

Katarina has been working on projects promoting peacebuilding and reconciliation in the Balkans since 2010. She has expertise in transitional justice topics in Serbia and Bosnia, having monitored and actively participated in implementation of over 20 TJ related projects.

She has expertise in transitional justice topics in Serbia and Bosnia, having monitored and actively participated in implementation of over 20 TJ related projects.

As a project manager at BIRN BiH for the past 11 years, she has broadened her knowledge and scope of work to security and corruption topics. She has expertise in project management in media and high analytical skills. She has participated in numerous conferences and seminars on international politics and communications.

Since 2014, when she joined BIRN BiH, she has managed several signature projects related to genocide in Srebrenica and war crimes in BiH, including: Lives behind the fields of death; Database of court established facts about the war; Transitional justice in BiH; Role of Serbia in Bosnian war – jigsaw puzzle of verdicts and The Srebrenica Genocide in the Words of its Perpetrators. She was also one of co-authors of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre’s Report on Genocide Denial, 2024.

In January 2026, she became Head of Programmes at BIRN BiH.

Katarina has a BA in International Affairs and a MA in Peace Studies from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade.