Valentina Ostojić is working on her master’s thesis in the field of socio-economic inequalities at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. Previously, she completed her undergraduate and specialist studies in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Montenegro. She further enhanced her academic qualifications at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Heidelberg University in Germany, and University of Nebraska in the U.S.. She is a recipient of the Award for the Best Undergraduate Students from the Faculty of Political Science, double scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), and she received four scholarships from the Ministry of Education for talented high school students and outstanding university students. Also, she has been awarded scholarships from the Swedish Institute, the U.S. State Department, and the Alpbach Forum. In 2020, she was selected as the Young European Ambassador of Montenegro through the WeBalkans programme conducted by the EC Directorate for Enlargement, and she is an alumna of the BOLD Academic Fellowship programme funded by the U.S. State Department. She successfully completed the Human Rights School organized by the CCE, the Regional School of Political Philosophy Dr. Zoran Đinđić, organized by the Dr. Zoran Đinđić Foundation and the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade, Balkan Trafik programme in Brussels organized by DG NEAR, and the European Political Academy Otzenhausen in Germany organized by KAS. During high school, she engaged in debate, securing the third place in the national debating championship in 2015. She is a member of Mensa Montenegro. In addition, she is a certified trainer for youth media literacy by the Media Diversity Institute for Western Balkans from the UK. She has interned at the Institute Alternative (IA) and the American Chamber of Commerce and conducted consultancy research for SOS Nikšić and OMSA in Montenegro, as well as for Particip GmbH in Belgium. She also has experience as a researcher at DeFacto Consultancy and as a project associate at the Regulatory Institute for Renewable Energy and the Environment (RERI). She is proficient in data processing programmes for statistical and qualitative analysis, such as SPSS, R Studio, and Maxqda. Fluent in English, with knowledge of Slovenian and Russian, and basic knowledge of German language.