Fedor Keredzin (Sweden, 1970)

CIMP™ Associate Programme Director

Fedor Keredzin MSc is a senior crisis, conflict and risk management expert, with a track record of excellence in non-for-profit and private sector organizations. At an early stage in his career, whilst still at university, finalizing his masters’ degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, Fedor worked as a military interpreter with Swedish military peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia, based in Bosnia Herzegovina. In this capacity he engaged with militia leaders, local politicians and armed groups, and developed hands-on conflict and crisis negotiation skills.

Upon returning home, he developed and organized – the first of its kind – joint training exercises for commanding officers and military interpreters joining the mission in Bosnia Herzegovina, focusing on access and acceptance strategies, local intelligence gathering and analysis, crisis management, communication and conflict navigation. His acumen for designing training and development programmes for conflict and crisis context originates in this period.

In 2004, Fedor continued his international career with the European Union Police Mission to North Macedonia as a strategic analyst, where he worked with local counterparts on a programme to bring the fragmented police force into the 21st century framework of democratic policing. He also led the development of a programme for the border police, aimed at combatting transnational organized crime and human trafficking. In Afghanistan, Fedor worked in commission as a senior analyst, in support of the international military mission ISAF. As a conflict expert, he advised governments on security sector reform, parliamentary oversight on armed forces and rule of law governance.

Fedor still regularly consults for the Swedish Army Survival School as a Crisis Management specialist and Conduct after Capture Instructor, delivering specialized high risk environment training to key personnel, civil servants and media employees. In addition, he has experience with turning information into analytical products that support operational and strategic decision-making, designing and facilitating scenario-based training and Red Team exercises.

Fedor is working with non-for-profit and private sector enterprises in bolstering crisis management and response mechanisms, especially through assessment of critical incident planning and response protocols. He is a highly appreciated senior advisor for the international financial sector, whilst creating and executing probing and infiltration exercises, simulating existing threat actors and their modus operandi.

Fedor is Associate partner in TisaMayo International Consultancies, and Programme Director of the Critical Incident Management Programme CIMP.

Fedor has a MSSc in Peace and Conflict studies from the University of Uppsala.

His working languages are Swedish, English, Serbian, German and French.

He lives in Geneva, Switzerland with his family and enjoys mountaineering.