Head, Strategic Issues and Engagements NATO Allied Command Transformation
Dr Zekulić was commissioned as an Infantry officer to the Croatian Armed Forces in 2002. During her military career she held numerous command and staff positions and deployed several times to operational theatres.
From 2014, she served two consecutive tours in NATO military commands leading the work on hybrid warfare, resilience, and geopolitical strategic assessments. After being a deputy head of Strategic Assessment Capability, in 2017 she joined the NATO HQ Operations Division where she led the work on posture management and deterrence messaging, and developed political-military assessments of the conventional and hybrid security challenges.
As of July 2021, Dr Zekulić leads Strategic Issues and Engagements Branch developing strategic issues identified by SACT, coordinating and designing engagements with NATO’s senior leadership, industry and academia and managing Command’s overall strategic engagements and communications output.
Parallel to her military and policy career, Dr Zekulić gained several international academic degrees in computer science, criminalistics, international relations and national security, strategic leadership and digital transformation.