Dr. Dragan Klaic, a Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, teaches arts and cultural policies at Leiden University. Educated in Belgrade and at Yale, he held professorships in Belgrade, Amsterdam and the U.S., led the Dutch Theatre Insitute, co-founded the European Theater Quarterly Euromaske, and led European cultural networks ENICPA and EFAH. He is the initiator of the European Festival Research Project and is active across Europe as a writer, lecturer, researcher and advisor. Publications include several books in former Yugoslavia as well as Terrorism and Modern Drama (co-edited with J. Orr, Edinburgh Univ. Press 1990, paperback 1992), The Plot of The Future: Utopia and Dystopia in Modern Drama (Michigan Univ. Press 1991), Shifting Gears/ Changer de vitesse (co-edited with R. Englander, TIN Amsterdam 1998), an exile memoir, Exercises in Exile, in Dutch and Croatian (2004 and 2006), Europe as a Cultural Project (Amsterdam: ECF 2005) and many articles and contributions to over 40 edited books. He is a contributing editor of Theater magazine (USA).