Sena Marić is a Senior Researcher and Programme Manager at the European Policy Centre (CEP), Belgrade. She oversees strategic development and the activities implemented within the Europe and Us programme area. Her main areas of expertise are EU enlargement policy, EU affairs and decision-making and civil society empowerment. She also works as external associate on research projects related to EU’s conditionality policy in the rule of law as well as asylum policies. Prior to CEP, Sena worked for the think tank European Stability Initiative in Brussels. Sena has an MA degree in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, with the scholarship provided by the Government of France. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade.