Sasa Vucinic

Sasa Vucinic

Serbian journalist and media development entrepreneur

Name in Arabic:
ساشا فوتشينيتش
Nationality: Serbian
Country of Residence: كوريا الجنوبية

Sasa Vucinic's Bio

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Serbian journalist and media development entrepreneur. Sasa is the co-founder of North Base Media and former CEO & Managing Director of the Media Development Investment Fund. 

Current positions

  • Co-founder, North Base Media VC 
  • Founder & CEO, V Media Ventures (since April 2011) 
  • Founder, IndieVoices, a crowdfunding portal for independent media in developing countries 

Previous positions

  • CEO & Managing Director, Media Development Investment Fund (formerly Media Development Loan Fund) until 31 March 2011 
  • General Manager & Editor-in-Chief, Radio B92, Belgrade (1990-1993) 
  • Editor-in-Chief of Non weekly political news magazine; early journalistic work there from 1979; rising to editor-in-chief in 1989 
  • Media consultant for the Soros Foundation Network, Prague (1993-1995) 

Awards and recognitions

  • Author of Evropa za nas (with Ljiljana Biuković and Miodrag Pepić), published by Triangle Press in 1989 
  • Delivered a TED talk in Oxford in July 2005 on free press and challenges faced by independent media globally 
  • Through MDIF, under his leadership over $100 million in loans made to independent media worldwide by 2012, funding over 200 projects in 30 countries; reaching over 36 million people in developing countries 

Education

  • Degree in International Law, University of Belgrade, 1985 
  • General Manager Program, Harvard Business School, 2000 
  • Private Equity Executive Education Course, Harvard Business School, 2003 
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