Professional Affiliation

Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Fomer Macedonia Project Director, International Crisis Group

Expert Bio

Edward P. Joseph was a member of the Wilson Center’s Working Group on the Western Balkans and teaches at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is a Senior Fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. In his dozen years in the Balkans, he served during the wars in each conflict-afflicted country (Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and North Macedonia).  In 2012, as Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Mr. Joseph negotiated the agreement to hold Serbian national elections in Kosovo. He has been deployed on shorter missions as well in Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The views expressed here are his own.

Previous Terms

Sep 1, 2003 - Dec 1, 2003 (Title VIII Supported Short-Term Scholar): Wilson Center Project - "Corruption, Organized Crime and Terrorism in the Balkans"