The company.
The people. The purpose.

A research and publishing company behind a global collection of reference books on relationships between countries.

193

UN member states

18,528

country relationships

domains of comparison

1,000+

contributors worldwide

01 · OUR PURPOSE

Better understanding.
Stronger relationships.

We help companies, institutions, organizations and decision-makers understand the similarities, differences, obstacles and opportunities between countries.

Founded by Croatian diplomat and author Dr. Siniša Grgić, Bilateral Navigator covers every pair of the 193 UN member states.

01
Every pair is its own relationship

Each of the 18,528 country pairs is treated as a relationship in its own right, not as two separate country profiles.
02
Data meets experience

Comparative data across 40 domains, brought to life by diplomats, professionals and people whose lives connect two countries.
03
Global and equal

193 UN member states and one common framework, giving equal attention to every country pair.

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02 · LEADERSHIP

The author and the company he built.

Bilateral Navigator was founded by Dr. Siniša Grgić and is guided by a Board of Senior Counselors with long experience in international diplomacy.

Dr. Siniša Grgić

Founder and President of Bilateral Navigator · Author of the book series

Dr. Grgić is the author of the Bilateral Navigator series and president of the think tank. He currently serves as Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Sweden and Latvia and as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Stockholm. Before joining the foreign service, he founded Croatia’s first credit rating agency, later acquired by Bisnode, now part of Dun & Bradstreet. He holds a doctorate in social network analysis and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Bilateral Navigator grew out of decades of his work at the intersection of large-scale data analysis, structured comparison, and the practical information needs of diplomats and decision-makers.

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BOARD OF SENIOR COUNSELORS

Experience from international diplomacy.

The Board of Senior Counselors is an advisory body supporting Bilateral Navigator’s international mission.

Dr. Srgjan Kerim

Chairman of the Board of Senior Counselors · President of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly

Dr. Kerim served as President of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change. He represented his country as Ambassador to Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, and as Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

A professor of international economics at the University of Belgrade, with visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg and New York University, he is the author of ten books on international politics and economics and more than one hundred scholarly papers, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Science and Education from the Macedonian Parliament.

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03 · TEAM · CO-FOUNDERS & BOARD