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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ABOUT EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Ferdinand Odzakov, PhD was born in 1969 in Gnjilane, Kosovo. He graduated from
the Institut for Defense and Protection (Now: Institut for Security, Defense and Peace Studies)
within Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, in April 1994. In 2010 he obtained master’s degree in
the field of defense. He obtained doctor’s degree in the field of law in 2013.
Since February 2018 he is visiting Associate Professor at the European University-Republic
of North Macedonia in Skopje. Ferdinand Odzakov works at the Ministry of Defense of the
Republic of North Macedonia, for more than 24 years. Since 2007 to 2015 he was Head of
Military Service for Security and Intelligence in the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of
North Macedonia.

His current position is Head of Human Resources Department in MoD. Ferdinand Odjakov
was participant on different courses & seminars in USA, Germany and Turkey.

Sara Perković is currently employed at Nanobit d.o.o. after four years of working in
the Thai Consulate General in Zagreb. She was born in Zagreb, on January 2nd, 1988. She
has a bachelor’s degree in Communication studies and has finished postgraduate studies in
International relations and Diplomacy in the Faculty of Government and European Studies in
Kranj, Slovenia.

Mile Šikman, Associate professor, PhD in Law, is the head of Police Education Ad-
ministration within the Republic of Srpska’s Ministry of the Interior. He is a professor of
Criminology and Organized Crime at the Faculty of Security Science and Law Faculty of the
University of Banja Luka. So far, he has had three textbooks, three monographs and several
other papers published. He has also published over 140 scientific and expert studies and has
taken participation in many international and national conferences. He was also a part of
several scientific and research projects. He has been given a status of educator in the Center
for Education of Judges and Prosecutors of the Republic of Srpska. He participated in the
development and implementation of the strategy called “Community Policing in BiH” (2008-
2011), and the strategy “Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in BiH” (2011-2014).

Elen Twrdy has a PhD in Transport Technology at University of Ljubljana. She obtained
an MSc in 1995 from the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and her PhD from the University of
Ljubljana in 2003. She was a Dean of the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transportation
(University of Ljubljana) during the period 2007-2019. Currently she is Head of Department
of Transport Technology.

She is a full Professor at the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport at the University in
Ljubljana at the first, second and third levels of study. She has written various academic and
research papers from the field of transport technology and transport logistics, with a special
research area in terminals, ports and maritime transport, and maritime logistics. Her bibliog-
raphy lists more than 100 papers published in scientific journals and presented at conferences.

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