Marina Naumovska
Legal expert
Marina Naumovska has worked for more than 20 years on justice reform programmes both internationally and domestically. She served as Team Leader of the Inter-Ministerial Group for the Reform of the Judiciary and Public Administration in North Macedonia as well as Assistant (Deputy) Minister of Justice.
She has worked as a programme manager, judicial specialist, and trainer in human rights capacity development programmes which have formed part of international initiatives. Much of her work in judicial training has been under the auspices of the EU and the Council of Europe. She has worked with institutions in the Western Balkans, the Caucasus, Latvia, Portugal, Turkey, and Ukraine. She has also worked with the World Bank, OSCE and other international institutions.
Marina has authored and co-authored numerous publications, created manuals and guides on various issues related to human rights and the rule of law, and has given more than fifty training sessions to judges. Her most recent projects included benchmarking studies on the uniform application of judicial practice, best practices in judicial training systems, and performance assessments of judges based on the Council of Europe standards and the European Court on Human Rights’ jurisprudence.
Marina graduated in law from the Faculty of Law, University Ss. Cyril and Methodious, Skopje.