Marko Tomicic, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 2006.
Marko Tomicic brings over 20 years of distinguished international experience in senior governance, public sector reform, trade and development. A permanent resident of Kenya, he has held prominent leadership positions across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas within diplomatic services, international organisations and major development programmes funded by FCDO, USAID and the UN.
His professional record includes senior roles with the National Democratic Institute, Global Integrity and IPE. While serving in Croatia’s diplomatic service at the OSCE and UN in Vienna, he led negotiations for the OSCE secretariat’s first major financial and operational reform since 1975. More recently, he has served as a Consultant and Advisor for the Center for International Private Enterprise and a Senior Advisor for Interpeace, focusing on strategic peacebuilding and private sector development across East Africa. He is also a co-founder of DataRoad, a knowledge graph and AI company.
Marko holds an MSc in Global and Area Studies from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College), where he was a Chevening Scholar, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Zagreb. He is an alumnus of the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) and the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he participated in the International Parliamentary Scholarship programme. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in the UK, he also leads its working group on Artificial Intelligence. Outside of his professional commitments, he enjoys playing guitar and harmonica, tennis and cycling, while remaining dedicated to youth mentorship in governance and civic responsibility.