Natasha Srdoc | Principled Conservative Leadership

Natasha Srdoc is the daughter of a World War II concentration camp survivor (Northern Italy) and the granddaughter of a heroic freedom fighter who was killed fighting Nazi German soldiers while protecting a local community which included a Jewish community and a historic synagogue in Rijeka, Croatia. 

Natasha is an individual with a deep commitment to faith, embracing Judeo-Christian values, married to Joel Anand Samy, an entrepreneur and media and think tank leader, and a mother of a young Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia who is pursuing a double major in math and physics.

Natasha Srdoc, MBA, is a trusted leader in the realm of advancing principled reforms in America, Europe, strengthening ties with the Jewish State of Israel — a nation which is a close partner of the United States, and strengthening initiatives to combat anti-Semitism. 

Photograph: Natasha Srdoc with her father Tom Srdoc, a World War II concentration camp survivor (Northern Italy).

As an entrepreneur and economist with a background in international banking, business, public policy, and organizing international trade missions with an emphasis on exporting US goods and services, she brings a wealth of experience to her engaged networks, inspiring them to take action in their communities.

In January 2001, Natasha Srdoc arrived in the United States and completed her Master in Business Administration (MBA), magna cum laude, in 2002 from Bentley University's McCallum Graduate School of Business,  Waltham, Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA. According to The Wall Street Journal, Bentley University was ranked 11th best college in the United States in its 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking, ahead of other top colleges including Columbia, Notre Dame, Michigan and Cornell.  She receieved her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics from the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics, Rijeka, Croatia. 

As a young business leader she led a textile company as CEO that worked with Benetton Group S.r.l., a global fashion brand based in Ponzano Veneto, Italy, with a network of about 5,000 stores worldwide. Natasha led this endeavor during the last days of Yugoslavia before its violent break-up in the 1990s. Her international banking experiences included Deutsch Bank and as a senior executive in the corporate loan division for HVB Banking Group. 

Photograph: Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy, co-authors of The Flat Tax with Steve Forbes, a proponent for the flat tax in America.

As co-founder of the International Leaders Summit, Natasha Srdoc has brought together a dynamic network of reform leaders and principled policy advocates, dedicated to strengthening the rule of law, advancing free enterprise, promoting healthcare reform, expanding free, fair and reciprocal trade, and securing peace through strength in the US, Europe, Israel, the Middle East Region and India. 

In 2003, Natasha Srdoc teamed up with Joel Anand Samy and founding partners in launching the International Leaders Summit — Adriatic Institute for Public Policy.  Stalwarts involved in this endeavor included Nobel laureate in economics Milton Friedman — an advisor to President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Dr. Alvin Rabushka, senior fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University who served on President Ronald Reagan's Tax Policy Task Force and author of The Flat Tax; Sir Ivan Lawrence, KC, a distinguished barrister, former member of the British Parliament and prominent British Jewish leader who was instrumental in the ascendancy of Margaret Thatcher to the top post as Leader of the UK Conservative Party; Edwin Meese III, America's 75th Attorney General; among other leading lights to advance reforms in Europe, primarily in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and in the United States with events highlighting principled reform initiatives.

Photograph: Natasha Srdoc with founding partners of International Leaders Summit — Nobel Laureate in economics Dr. Milton Friedman and economist and author Dr. Rose Friedman. 

For nearly half a decade, Srdoc was a regular contributor to The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), The Economist Group.

In 2015, Natasha Srdoc, Joel Anand Samy, and the late Sanford M. Saunders, a respected Jewish-American leader, co-founded the Jerusalem Leaders Summit to strengthen US-Israel ties on the economic, security, healthcare and trade fronts. The prominent pro-Israel platform highlights the start-up nation’s creativity, innovation and positive contribution through technology, and engaging key audiences within America, Britain, continental Europe, the Middle East region and India.

In 2023, Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy launched the American-European Leaders Summit in the European Parliament with partners Manfred Weber, chairman, Group of the European People's Party and president of the European People's Party, U.S. Congressman Mike Bost, chairman, Veterans' Affairs Committee and member of Transportation &  Infrastructure Committee and Agriculture Committee.

Since 2007, Natasha Srdoc and her partners organized events in the US and the European Parliament in Brussels advocating on behalf of American companies and investors in entering the European Union market. She engaged American entrepreneurs, CEOs and C-suite executives from major companies including AT&T,  investors and small business owners to create a level playing field for US entities engaging on the European continent with a strategic focus in highlighting the issues of combating corruption and establishing the rule of law in Eastern European nations, specifically NATO members receiving aid from US taxpayers. 

In 2023, Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy launched the American-European Leaders Summit in the European Parliament with partners Manfred Weber, chairman, Group of the European People's Party and president of the European People's Party, U.S. Congressman Mike Bost, chairman, Veterans' Affairs Committee and member of Transportation &  Infrastructure Committee and Agriculture Committee.

In 2020, Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy launched America's Roundtable from Washington, DC — a weekly radio program first aired by 65 radio stations and then shared via 12 prominent podcast platforms. She engages influential leaders in business, government, media and the think tank arena on the vital issues impacting America and the world. 

Natasha Srdoc’s broadcast media interviews, articles and commentaries have appeared in Europe and the United States through the BBC, CBN News, CNN, Voice of America, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Swiss based business daily –Le Temps, The Sunday Times (UK) and The Washington Times.

Natasha Srdoc co-authored a book with Joel Anand Samy titled “Flat Tax – The Case for Tax Reform” – which was used by reformers in implementing the flat tax in Eastern Europe’s post-communist economies. The preface was written by Dr. Alvin Rabushka, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a chapter was written by the Slovak Republic's Finance Minister Ivan Miklos. Key contributors to the book included John Willman, chief leader writer of The Financial Times and Paul Rübig, member of the European Parliament, Austria. 

Natasha Srdoc co-authored a book with Joel Anand Samy titled “Flat Tax – The Case for Tax Reform” – which was used by reformers in implementing the flat tax in Eastern Europe’s post-communist economies. The preface was written by Dr. Alvin Rabushka, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a chapter was written by the Slovak Republic's Finance Minister Ivan Miklos. Key contributors to the book included John Willman, chief leader writer of The Financial Times and Paul Rübig, member of the European Parliament, Austria. 

At the International Leaders Summit events, moderators of strategic economic panels included senior editors from The Economist, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. The events in America, Europe and Israel have Natasha Srdoc featured proponents of reforms including the Flat Tax.

The successful implementation of the low flat tax in Eastern Europe placed significant pressures on Western Europe as Germany and other major economies had to reduce their respective higher tax rates. On average, the European Union countries levy a corporate income tax rate of 21.3 percent.  This race to lower taxes has fueled a global tax competition thus applying principled pressures around the world, including within America.

As a witness to the violent break-up of Yugoslavia which killed over 200,000 in the 1990s (based on the data presented in Richard Holbrooke's book "To End a War"), and her engagement on the ground in Israel, the Middle East and India, Natasha Srdoc understands the importance of a strong national defense, its strategic military partnership with trusted allies and the importance of securing peace through strength.

Through her work with elected leaders in Europe and the Middle East, with heads of governments and states, prime ministers and cabinet ministers, Natasha Srdoc has established key relationships and advanced policy ideas that focus on strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions and countering the schemes of China and Iran. 

Photograph: Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with young IDF soldiers in Jerusalem, Israel (2016).