Emir Halilovic joined IDC CEMA in January 2003. As a program manager, he leads research in the carrier network equipment market in EMEA. He is also the research leader on IDC's EMEA Quarterly Networks Tracker and contributes to consulting projects related to networking and telecommunications carrier network equipment.

Prior to joining IDC, Halilovic spent two years writing about the telecom, mobile, and IT industries in the Czech Republic for the business weekly Prague Business Journal. Over the course of his work there, he provided extensive coverage of developments in the Czech telecoms market as it went through massive changes that the included the liberalization of fixed-line telephony services, efforts to privatize state-owned operators, the explosion of the mobile market, and UMTS licensing.

Halilovic studied psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University in Serbia. In addition to his native Serbian, he speaks English, Czech, and French fluently.