Vukosava Crnjanski

Director, CRTA

Vukosava Crnjanski is a Founder and Director of the Serbia’s advocacy and watchdog organization CRTA, established in 2002. CRTA’s work is aimed towards supporting democratization and European integration of Serbia, by raising and strengthening the demand for an open, accountable and democratic government. She has extensive understanding and expertise in fostering democratization gained through engagement in years-long advocacy initiatives, including in areas of oversight and raising demand for institutional accountability and openness, election observation, fact-checking and fight against disinformation. Under Vukosava’s leadership, CRTA was awarded with the OSCE 2018 Democracy Defender Award for contribution to the promotion of democracy and the defense of human rights, as well as the 2018 award of the FOI Commissioner for its strong contribution in the area of free access to information in Serbia. Vukosava’s democracy efforts were also recognized by the National Democratic Institute’s W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award in 2013, as well as the medal of the Knight of the National Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Republic of France in 2023.