Daša Šašić Šilović is Chair, International Board, CEE Network Gender for Gender Issues since 1994, President, European Partners for the Environment (Brussels), member, International Board, Network 20/20, New York and member, Core Group FEPS/FES project on gender and social care.
She is the recipient of the 2019 Silver Rose prize awarded by SOLIDAR and the S&D Group at the European Parliament for Social Policy (“Together for Social Europe – Social Affairs). She was coordinator of the maritime operation to transport chemical weapons out of the Syrian Arab Republic for the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria. For more than a decade she was Senior Policy Adviser and Team leader on development cooperation and Senior Gender Advisor at the UNDP HQ New York, one of the initiators of International Aid Transparency Initiative, member of the EBRD Environment and Social Advisory Council and the NATO Civil Society Advisory Panel on Women, Peace and Security, UN Correspondent and foreign affairs commentator for “World Affairs Television” (Montreal) broadcast in Canada/US and among others Associate Professor at the Columbia University School for International Public Affairs.
She is member of the High Level Group of the European Innovation Partnership.