Adriatic Institute for Public Policy

Adriatic Institute for Public Policy
founded in the year	2004
City	Rijeka
Country	Croatia
Website	http://www.adriaticinstitute.org/
address	Markovici 15, Srdoci, 51000 Rijeka
founder	Joel Anand Samy, Natasha Srdoc
number of employees	11
Networks	New Direction Foundation, Stockholm Network
Last revision	7.03.2013
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 37
Presences n = 191
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Think Tank,24 Business,10 Media,86 Politics,35 Academia,15 NGO,21 </pPie>
Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,52 Leader (CEO etc.),35 Consultant,17 Editor,2 Interviewee,37 Member,29 Participant,5 Lecturer,10 Employee,4 </pPie>

The following coordinate was not recognized: 45.32706;14.44218.The following coordinate was not recognized: 45.32706;14.44218. It is a market oriented Think Tank.

Organizational Structure and Funding

The institute has a board of two and an advisory board of 25 (among them several prominent representatives of other market radical Think Tanks) persons and four staff members. It does not seek or receive any government funding.

Address

Markovici 15, Srdoci, 51000 Rijeka

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Joel Anand Samy, Trustee and co-founder

• Natasha Srdoc, CEO and Co-founder

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Oliver Knipping (formerly)

• Robert Moraal (formerly)

• Boris Divjak, Distinguished senior fellow

• Jadranko Brkic, Director of New Media and senior fellow

• Joseph Molitorisz (formerly)

• Luka Arvaj, Research Associate

• Martin Chren, Senior fellow

• Borislav Ristic, Senior fellow

• Zeljana Grubisic, Research Associate

• Katelyn Foster, Research Associate

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Edwin Meese III, Honorary chairman

• Mike Bubalo, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Andrei Illarionov, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Steve Hanke, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Helen Disney, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Bridgett Wagner, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Monica Macovei, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Lawrence Reed, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Maurice McTigue, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Alvin Rabushka, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• John Blundell, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Mara Letica Saad, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Tom G. Palmer, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Mart Laar, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Matt D. Sertich, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Ivan Miklos, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Linda Whetstone, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Daniel Mitchell, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Anthony Maglica, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Michael Klowden, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• David Nott, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Lawrence J. McQuillan (formerly), Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Goran Gazivoda, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Eamonn Butler, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

• Victoria Curzon-Price, Senior Adviser to Leadership and Executive Advisory Board

Boris Divjak is a board member of Transparency International Berlin. Divjak founded the local branch of Transparency in Bosnia.

Working mode, goals

The free market think tank emphasizes the importance of free market principles based on the rule of law, an independent judiciary, protection of property rights, economic freedom and limited government. The institute seeks to gain influence by publishing studies, contributing opinions, organizing seminars and conferences and combining regional as well as international forces. Under the institute's overall controll several internationally operating think tanks carry out the congresses of the International Leaders Summit. Regional presentations of the 6th Summit in 2009 were carried out in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce in Belgrad, the Charles University's Institute of Economics and the market liberal project Lodz, presenting the current Index of Economic Freedom by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. However the 'International Leaders Summit' seems to be discontinued, the Adriatic website doesn't hold any evidence that there have been summits since 2009. It looks like as the institute concentrates on their Youtube-channel and the new Blog (both established in 2012).

Cooperations with Think Tanks

• New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform
• Heritage Foundation

Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Adriatic Institute for Public Policy

While the section above shows Think Tanks the Adriatic Institute for Public Policy claims to cooperate with, the list below shows Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Adriatic Institute for Public Policy.

• New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform

Cooperations with Non-Think Tanks

• http://online.wsj.com/

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

• Institutional Reform/Public Services
• Justice and fundamental rights
• Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud
• Anti-fraud
• property rights

All topics radically criticize the status quo.

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Promoting deregulation and austerity measures (Austerity Politics): adopts reduction of public and especially external debt according to the neoliberal reform recipes of New Zealand's 90s Keyfigures: McTigue, Maurice