Tatjana Ibraimovic (1979), born in Belgrade from a Bosnian mother and Serbian-Macedonian father, lives in Serbia until the elementary school, after in the city of Bugojno in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here she meets Fatima, a classmate, who will soon become her best friend: to her she writes never sent letters in her days of exile, after the escape from Balkans’ war in 1992. After Croatia, Portugal and Italy, she finally arrives to Switzerland in 1994 and obtains a refugee status. Once back to her homeland just after the Dayton Agreements, she finishes her college studies in Bugojno where she again meets her friend Fatima.
Thanks to the support of two professors from Switzerland, she returns to Lugano and initiates her academic studies at the University of Lugano. She obtains the degree of MSc in Economics and Msc in Finance from the same University and starts her PhD in Political Economics in 2007. She works for the Institute of Economic Research and currently is a research fellow at the University of Leeds and Imperial College London.
Married, mother of Ahmed (1 year old boy), she obtained the Swiss citizenship in 2010.
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