Career
In his professional capacity he is the Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre based in Bergen, Norway since September 2014. Divjak is a macroeconomist, with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Reading, United Kingdom and the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria as well as a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Reading. Until 2008, he consulted the World Bank, the European Commission, United States Agency for International Development and other bilateral and multilateral donors, contributing to their development programs throughout the Balkans.
From 2008 to June 2010 he was the Project Manager of the World Bank Group"s Investment Climate Advisory Services in Azerbaijan.
From June 2010 to October 2012 he worked as Operations Officer in the Washington District of Columbia main office of Investment Climate of the World Bank, on a similar range of issues, focusing on the Lusophone Africa and several other countries. From October 2012 until September 2014 he assumed the post of the Business Regulations Lead for West and Central Africa, including the Lusophone countries.
He was based in the Dakar hub of the International Finance Corporation (International Finance Corporation) of the World Bank Group. In his Transparency International capacity, Divjak analysed corruption issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the rest of the SEE region and remains a key public opinion-shaper.
He has worked on design and implementation of several anti-corruption strategies and tools both in BiH and beyond.
In November 2005 he was elected into Transparency International"s global Board of Directors, where he served two terms until 2011. He also then chaired the TI"s Membership Accreditation Committee responsible for approving the institutional and organisational capacities of every movement"s member globally and assisted the national chapters in their capacity building.
