Matt interviews Milena Lazarevic of CEP Belgrade. One of the founders of CEP, she shares some of the story of its beginning.
We discuss effective management for your size; being a good employer in brain-drain areas; responsibility to your community; not giving up! Milena is an inspiration to all those who want to change the world around them, starting with neighbourhood and country.
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Nicolas Véron is very much a mentor, despite his youth in comparison to me! One of the brains behind Bruegel, the economics think tank where I worked for more than 13 years, he worked with Jean Pisani-Ferry for a number of years on the Bruegel project before it became operational.
He regards Bruegel to have been an exception, an outlier, in many areas. However, that does not mean that think tanks, old and new, cannot learn something from a number of aspects of the Bruegel story. Finding a niche, operating as an entrepreneur and substituting money with time and hard work are just three areas where this story can inspire others.
He also gives a short insight into some of the differences between European and US think tanks. Perhaps the biggest difference is all about US managerial culture which affects more than just the think tank sector.
An inspiring and motivating guest, I hope you will learn something from Nicolas to apply to your own work in the think tank sector.
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