Marko Tomicic

Subject studied: MSc Russian and East European Studies

Matriculation year: 2006

Location: Nairobi

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Marko Tomicic is the Country Manager for Kenya at the Washington-based Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), where he leads programmes on governance and private sector development. He is also the Honorary Chair of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Kenya.

With over 20 years of international experience, Marko has worked across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas in senior roles spanning governance reform, diplomacy, peacebuilding and development cooperation. A permanent resident of Kenya, his career has included leadership positions with the National Democratic Institute and Global Integrity, as well as advisory roles with Interpeace focused on strategic peacebuilding in East Africa.

Earlier in his career, Marko served in Croatia’s diplomatic service at the OSCE and the United Nations in Vienna, where he led negotiations for the OSCE Secretariat’s first major financial and operational reform since 1975. He is also a co-founder of DataRoad, a knowledge graph and AI company.

Marko holds an MSc in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford, where he studied at St Antony’s College as a Chevening Scholar, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Zagreb. He is an alumnus of the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) and Humboldt University in Berlin through the International Parliamentary Scholarship programme. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he currently leads its working group on artificial intelligence.