In this Geoeconomics Podcast episode, Aleksa Burmazovic talks with Dragan Kostić, the long-serving CEO of Pirot Free Zone, one of the top zones in Europe, who is also on the directors' board of the World Free Zones Organization. He is also the president of the Pirot Chamber of Commerce and a veteran of the zone space.

See the Open Zone Map:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

FDI Awards 2018:

https://www.fdiintelligence.com/article/73024

Belgrade Free Zone:

http://www.szb.co.rs/

Apatin Free Zone:

http://www.freezoneapatin.com/

Yugoslavian Free Zones:

https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=1820-31590602217K

Shannon Free Zone:

https://www.shannonchamber.ie/about/about-shannon/shannon-for-business/shannon-free-zone/

Lodz SEZ:

https://sse.lodz.pl/en/

Elixir Group:

https://www.elixirgroup.rs/en/

Chempark Prahovo:

https://icpp.rs/chemical-park/

WFZO:

https://www.worldfzo.org/#

WEPZA:

http://www.wepza.org/

FEMOZA:

https://femoza.org/

AZFA:

https://www.asociacionzonasfrancas.org/es/

AEZO:

https://www.africaeconomiczones.com/

GASEZ:

https://worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org/session/launching-luncheon-of-global-alliance-of-sezs-gasezs-in-partnership-with-regional-and-global-associations-of-sezs/

Yandex & Self Driving Cars:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/russian-tech-firm-yandex-test-self-driving-taxis-moscow-this-year-2021-09-08/

Tesla Free Zone Gigafactory:

https://electrek.co/2018/05/14/tesla-new-company-shanghai-free-trade-zone-chinese-gigafactory/

Bob Haywood:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-haywood-99291213/

Juan Torrents:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-torrents-381828a7/?originalSubdomain=ch

Aleksandar Simonovic:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandar-simonovic-74947847/?originalSubdomain=rs

Mohammed Alzarooni:

https://www.worldfzo.org/About-Us/Board-of-directors/id/330/dr-mohammed-alzarooni

Samir Hamrouni:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-samir-hamrouni-4a696413/

This podcast was produced by the Adrianople Group. The Adrianople Group is a business intelligence firm that focuses on special economic zones, venture capital, private equity, and geoeconomics.

Take a look at our free and open-source map of special economic zones:

https://www.openzonemap.com/

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