Milena Stošić (she/her) is a senior consultant focusing on public participation, organisational development, and intersectionality. Appointed as the historically first OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office (CiO) Special Representative on Youth and Security, she played a pivotal role in youth mainstreaming across the OSCE, alongside fieldwork on youth portfolio in the Western Balkans. With the ICRC in South Africa, she contributed to steering an outcome-based approach within the humanitarian delivery cycle. Since the beginning of her professional career, rooted in youth organising and a decolonised worldview, she has (co-)authored numerous resources in the fields of youth policy, project and grant management, and youth rights. She has produced work in the field of democratisation, human rights, gender equality, peacebuilding and youth, for UN Women, IOM, ODIHR, GIZ, WFD, UNICEF, RYCO etc. Research-wise she is focused on feminist security, gender mainstreaming and intersection among UNSC’s Women, Peace and Security and Youth, Peace and Security agendas.
Ms. Stosic started her engagement with the European Youth Press (EYP) at first as a delegate of the Member Organization (World Youth Wave - International Youth Web Magazine Wave) in 2011, moving on to partaking in the EYP Communication team, and in 2013 she was elected as Executive Board member where she remained on this duty by the end of 2015. On behalf of EYP as a member organisation, Ms. Stosic was also acting as a delegate to the European Youth Forum (YFJ) and participated in a number of activities of this platform, such as representing YFJ members in Africa-Europe Youth Cooperation Platform. As of 2016, Milena is a member of the EYP Alumni. In terms of media making, among other, she is a holder of the European Commission's European Young Journalist Award, used to run a youth-led citizen journalist platform Youth018 and authored and hosted a radio show on contemporary psychology.
