Cvete Koneska
Macedonia
DPhil Politics, 2011
St Antony's College, Oxford
Funding: Weidenfeld
Cvete read for a DPhil in Politics at Oxford, researching post-conflict cooperation and political decision-making in the Balkans.
Having previously studied politics and worked for a think-tank in her native Macedonia on security and foreign policy issues, her doctoral research allowed her to examine the key challenges to security and political reforms in the region.
Since graduating from Oxford, Cvete has spent more than a decade working in the political risk consulting sector, advising organisations on major political risks, trends, and opportunities in different countries across Europe, and globally including as head of the risk analysis practice at S-RM Risk and Intelligence and as ESG Research Director at Arabesque.
Cvete is currently Head of Advisory at Dragonfly which provides geopolitical and security information to the world’s businesses. She is currently based in London, UK.
“The comprehensive nature of the WHT Scholarship and Leadership Programme helped me broaden my professional and academic outlook, beyond the immediate academic issues I researched for my DPhil. The network of people I built though the WHT programme has been critical to my professional success, and I have often relied on the smart and helpful WHT alumni to help me deliver projects in unfamiliar countries under tight deadlines.
I credit the WHT moral philosophy seminars for equipping me with invaluable thinking and questioning tools, which I have found invaluable in addressing personal and professional dilemmas.”
