THE BALKANS.COM BUSINESS NEWS TEAM

Balkans.com Business News is a Balkan based online business news source providing up-to-date daily news and weekly reviews, market research, financial reports, and database of companies, from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. The business-only website in English, Serbian and Greek keeps you up-to-date with its comprehensive coverage of the region, in-depth analysis of industries and business opportunities, interviews with business leaders, special reports and a searchable database.

The Balkans.com Business News Team gathers a multinational and multi-lingual group of journalists, translators, managers and economists. The timely and objective business news is written by our team of talented and knowledgeable, on-the-ground correspondents throughout the Balkans.

Alison Andrews - Founder and publisher of Balkans.com Business News Alison Andrews, the founder and publisher of Balkans.com Business News, has been devoted for years to improving the business climate in the Balkans, seeking and also creating opportunities for robust economic growth. She helped organize – together with her parents, TRH Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine - the immensely successful Athens 2005 congress that brought together top Greek and Serbian businessmen. The historic gathering ushered a new era of greater business cooperation and, in particular, helped boost investments in Serbia. Ms. Andrews established BBN as a vital source of business information for and from the region, enabling numerous entrepreneurs to start or expand their ventures in the Balkans. Her other main business, real estate consultancy and brokerage company, Arrowtrack Ltd focuses on property development in Southeast Europe. Ms. Andrews brought to the region her vast business experience of more than 20 years in the United States where she ran own telecommunication and data company servicing the financial industry, including a worldwide patent she received for telecommunication compliance.

Jane Foster - Business Tourism Features A British freelance writer based in Athens, Jane Foster has travelled extensively through the Balkans. She has written about Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Greece for guidebook publishers including Footprint, Insight and Fodor’s. Her articles have also appeared in British newspapers including the Daily Telegraph and Guardian; in Sherman’s Travel magazine; and in Silver Kris, the Singapore Airlines in-flight magazine. A graduate in Architecture, she lived six years in Split, Croatia, before moving to Greece. She speaks English, Italian, Croatian and Greek. .

Jelena Mišić - Executive Coordinator Based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jelena Misic has served in several market and media research agencies six years as a supervisor and research worker. One of them was AC Nielsen where she interviewed managers from different type of industries. She has also worked in media monitoring for Kliping Sarajevo. In UNHCR she has worked with people who lost their homes. In the mean time, she was teaching chlildren in maths and physics.

Mark R. Pullen - Interviews During his seven-year residence in Serbia, Mark Pullen of the UK has served as editor-in-chief of two English-language print publications, and coordinator of many special editions. He has also worked as a freelance media and PR consultant, speech writer, journalist and translator for online media and other organisations. A graduate in Journalism from Liverpool JM University, Mr Pullen worked for the Press Association in the UK before relocating to Belgrade in 2002.

Romeo Mlinar - Translator (English to Serbian) A graduate of the University of Montenegro, Department of English Language and Literature, Romeo Mlinar translates English-language news, analysis and features into Serbian for Balkans.com Business News. Mr Mlinar has worked as a freelance translator, interpreter, and English tutor; and as a contributor to open-source software localization. His professional and personal interests include language acquisition, translation theory, online media and publishing, computational linguistics, software language tools, and computer programming.

Amela Kalić - Balkans Travel Guide Adminstrator Amela Kalić lives in Sarajevo. She is an economist. Her work expirience is very diversity since she worked in sales, in the organization, turism, etc. Also, thanks to meny years of expirience in marketing, Amela has become an expert in that field.

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