Daša Šašić Šilović is a global gender advocate, international leader and expert in sustainable development, multilateral diplomacy and foreign affairs. She has served as Chair of the International Board of the CEE Network for Gender Issues since 1994 and is also President of European Partners for the Environment (Brussels). Her other leadership roles include Board Member of the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity (The Hague) and Member of the International Board of Network 20/20 (New York).

She is the founder of the Korčula School – a forward-thinking political think tank that focuses on transformative progressive politics through a gender lens.

In 2020, she received the Silver Rose Prize, awarded by SOLIDAR and the S&D Group in the European Parliament, recognising her contributions to social policy under the theme “Together for Social Europe – Social Affairs.”

For over a decade, she was a Senior Policy Adviser and Team Leader on development cooperation and served as Senior Gender Advisor at UNDP headquarters in New York. She was one of the initiators of the International Aid Transparency Initiative and has contributed as a member of the EBRD Environment and Social Advisory Council and the NATO Civil Society Advisory Panel on Women, Peace and Security. Her career includes other high-impact roles such as coordination adviser in the maritime operation for the removal of chemical weapons from the Syrian Arab Republic within the OPCW-UN Joint Mission.

Her academic credentials include among others Adjunct Professor, Columbia University New York, School for International Public Affairs (SIPA) course: “The UN, multilateral diplomacy and gender equality”, alumna of the IPA/Austrian Diplomatic Academy on crisis, peacebuilding, preventive diplomacy and post-conflict, external associate at the Center for Urban Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY (New York), external associate of the Institute for International Politics and Economics and Institute for Social Affairs in Belgrade.

She has also worked as UN correspondent and foreign affairs commentator for World Affairs Television (Montreal), broadcasting across Canada and the US, was an UN correspondent for several papers and contributor to foreign affairs journals. She is the author of “The Diplomatic Kitchen” (Novi Sad/Serbia 2005) on diplomatic life and politics through food.