Tihomir Tsenkulovski

Tihomir Tsenkulovski has extensive international experience spanning academia, the private sector, and international organizations. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Organization Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His Ph.D. inquiry is concerned with international norm dynamics and creative city making – how the discourse on the role of cultural and creative industries for sustainable urban development is translated into local practices in Brazil and Argentina in the context of the UNESCO Creative Cities network. At the beginning of 2020 he conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Latin America with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2021 he was a visiting research fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He is currently a research and teaching assistant in sustainability innovation at the Institute of Technology Management, the University of St. Gallen. In 2021 and 2022 he was part of the Academic Jury for the Global Essay Competition of the St. Gallen Symposium – a prominent platform for cross-generational dialogue and collaboration.

Tihomir attained a Master’s degree in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University as a Fulbright scholar with Certificates in Strategic Management and Diplomatic Studies and completed coursework at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. He holds a second Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy of the European Union from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium which he obtained thanks to a scholarship from the European Commission in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy. During his graduate studies, he gathered experience as a project lead at the University of Pennsylvania, as a DAAD research fellow in Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, as a research assistant at Harvard Law School, as a staff editor for The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and as an election observer for the European Union in Bolivia. His professional experience also includes working as a Strategic Business Manager in the Intellectual Property & Science department of Thomson Reuters & Clarivate Analytics, as a researcher in the framework of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program, as a management consultant to a high-level working group at the World Bank Group, Scholastic Inc., UNIDO, and UNOV/UNODC.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Strategic Business Manager, Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics, Germany, 2012 – 2017

• Consultant, UNODC/UNOV, Austria, 2020

• Consultant, World Bank Group, 2009 – 2012

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of International Relations, IE University, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Research Assistant in Sustainability Innovation, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2020 – Present

• Visiting Scholar, Institut Barcelona d´Estudis Internationals (IBEI), Spain, 2021

• Academic Jury Member, St. Gallen Symposium, 2020 – Present

• Researcher, Horizon 2020, Remote, European Commission, 2019

• Research Assistant, Harvard Law School, 2009

• Research Assistant and Project Lead, University of Pennsylvania, 2008

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Organizational Studies and Cultural Theory, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Expected in 2023

• Master in International Relations and Diplomacy of the European Union, College of Europe, Belgium, 2018

• Master in Law and Diplomacy, Fletcher School, Tufts University, 2009

• Master in International Relations and Security, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 2007