Leila Bicakcic is one of founders and CEO of Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN), first investigative centre in the Balkans.

Today, CIN is an independent media agency dedicated to investigating and reporting on corruption, organised crime and nexus between political elites and criminal circles. At CIN Leila is responsible for strategic and programmatic planning, fundraising, outreach and donor relations, administration and financial management.

Prior to CIN, she worked for OSCE, UNICEF and the American Bar Association (ABA/CEELI), where she spent nine years as finance manager and trainer. A Sarajevo native, she studied basic physics and economics at the University of Sarajevo.

 

Leila Bičakčić

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Name
Leila Bičakčić
Title
Director at Center for Investigative Reporting
Country
Bosnia & Herzegovina
City
Sarajevo
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Small hydropower plants causing big damage to rivers in BiH

  • Energy
  • Environment

SARAJEVO - This investigation explores the damages caused to nature and small rural communities by the construction of the small hydropower plants and their access roads, and what drove investors, especially foreign ones, to seek opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hydropower plant BiH