As an Assistant to the Croatian Innocence Project, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation and implemented by the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Andrej primarily works on miscarriages of justice and innocence projects in Croatia and the SEE region. As a Legal Expert, he focuses on judicial vetting and has coordinated the development of the CEELI Institute’s Guidelines on Judicial Vetting. He is currently a Doctoral Assistant at the Department of Criminal Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he researches miscarriages of justice and innocence projects. Previously, he served as a Legal Adviser to the Judges Association of North Macedonia for 10 years, designing projects to build an accountable, independent judiciary and reform the criminal justice system. He has provided expertise on the admissibility of intelligence-gathered evidence and judicial ethics and consulted for OSCE/ODIHR and DCAF on intelligence sector and justice sector reform.

Andrej is a proud IVLP alumnus of the U.S. Department of State and a core group member of the CEELI Institute’s Central and Eastern European Judicial Exchange Network.