Ivica Bocevski is a diplomat, politician, and writer from the Republic of North Macedonia. He served as a Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs and as the Spokesperson for the Government. In a diplomatic capacity, he represented his country as the first Ambassador of the Republic of North Macedonia to Brazil and Latin America, as the diplomatic advisor to the President of the Republic, and as a researcher in the research and analysis department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Most recently, he served in Budapest as the Special Representative of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia to the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. His areas of interest are democratization, European integration, regional cooperation initiatives in the region of the Balkans, conflict and post-conflict societies, managing diverse societies, multilateralism in the 21st century, migrations, international affairs, and the new concepts of citizenship. He is a syndicated columnist for the daily newspaper \”Nova Makedonija,\” and his texts have been published in regional and European media, as well as in analytical and academic journals. He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Skopje and a Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh (recipient of the prestigious Ron Brown Fellowship of the US State Department). He is finishing his doctoral studies in contemporary history at the Institute of National History in Skopje focusing on the democratic change in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.