OSCE Employee Spotlight
Gail Fisher
Monitoring Officer, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
Gail Fisher (UK) is currently holding a position as Monitoring Officer in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. She joined the Mission in 2016.
She has graduated from Aberdeen University in the UK and is holding a university degree in Law. Gail has spent a number of years working for the British military in different areas, such as engineering, conflict analysis and human resources. She has held various assignments with the British military such as Team Leader, Operations Manager and the most recent assignment was as the Strategic Assessments Analyst.
Marinka Franulovic
Monitoring Officer, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
Marinka Franulovic (Croatia) is currently holding a position as Monitoring Officer in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. She joined the Mission in March 2015. Marinka graduated with a master’s degree in Law from the Faculty of Law at the University Of Zagreb, Croatia.
She has over 20 years of professional work experience and has held a number of roles in many different countries, such as the Philippines and Central Asia, more specifically in Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russian Federation.
Her career focus was mainly in the areas related to law, diplomacy and human rights. Prior to her current assignment, she has worked for the Croatian Embassy in Moscow covering also culture, education, science and sports.
Marinka considers her career as the OSCE SMM monitor as an important and meaningful addition to her long-term international carrier and she is grateful for the possibility to utilize a wide range of her professional skills in the dynamic monitoring work.
As a gender expert, she particularly enjoys working in a diverse international working environment where equality principles are cherished and efforts put to integrate them in all key areas of the Mission work. “This itself makes me delighted to add OSCE to my rather atypical career journey.” – she concludes. #Pressforparity
