Caroline Hornstein Tomić

Caroline Hornstein Tomić, PhD is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb, specialising in high-skilled and return migration, diaspora and identity politics, post-socialist transformation processes in Southeast Europe, and civic education. Besides engaging in academia and the civil sector – as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of THE CIVICS, Co-Founder and Management Chair of the Zagreb based foundation Wissen am Werk / Znanje na djelu, and Board member of the European Forum Alpbach Foundation,– she has also worked in the public sector as Operative Division Head at the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (2016 – 2018). Caroline has been based in the SOE region since 2000; from 2001 until 2005, she served as Resident Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.