Before joining the Insitute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vejvoda was Senior Vice President for Programmes at the German Marshall Fund (GMF). From 2003 until 2010, he served as Executive Director of GMF’s Balkan Trust for Democracy. Vejvoda was a key figure in the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia during the 1990s, and has published widely on the subjects of democratic transition, totalitarianism, and post-war reconstruction in the Balkans.