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Mimoza Kusari-Lila (born October 16, 1975 in Đakovica , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Kosovar politician who belongs to the Alternativa party. She is currently a member of the Liberal Party and party leader.

Kusari-Lila was Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo from 2011 to 2013. Subsequently, Kusari-Lila was the first female mayor in the history of Kosovo until 2017 .

Life

family

Kusari was born in Gjakova. Her father was a pulmonologist and her mother taught Albanian in elementary school. She is one of four children.

Kusari married Arben Lila and took a four-month break from politics and work in December 2004, as their son was born the following year. The couple has two children.

education and profession

Kusari studied economics at the University of Pristina from 1993 until her bachelor's degree in 1998. She also worked full-time to finance her studies. During the Kosovo war she worked for Doctors Without Borders , the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). When the border between Kosovo and Macedonia was closed in March 1999 , she was put in a refugee camp for three months because of an appointment at the American embassy in Skopje . During this time she reports from the camp as an assistant reporter for the National Public Radio .

Kusari received a 1999 Ron Brown Scholarship for an MBA from the US State Department. In the United States, she studied at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh from 2000–2001 . Kusari completed her master's degree in e-business . During this time she founded the Association of Business Women at Duquesne University and was its first president. After completing her studies, she worked as an intern at Bayer Corporation in Pittsburgh.

After Kusari returned to Kosovo in 2001, she worked for a project for KBS and USAID for eleven months . She then worked as a project manager for the successful establishment of the American University in Kosovo .

After her baby break , Kusari-Lila was a ten-month director at the Department of Energy and changed from 2006 to 2009 as director to the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Kosovo). During this time she completed a four-month research project on a Fulbright scholarship at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2009 and was a lecturer at the American University for three semesters.

politics

During the tenure of Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi , Mimoza Kusari was the first female government spokesperson for Kosovo from October 2003 to the end of December 2004 .

In 2009, Kusari-Lila ran for the mayor's office of Gjakova for the first time. She competed for the liberal Aleanca Kosova e Re (AKR). The highly controversial local elections led to a trial before the Constitutional Court of Kosovo. In the December 2010 elections , Kusari-Lila received the highest number of votes among women politicians in Kosovo. Behgjet Pacolli had brought her up as a candidate for the post of prime minister.

On February 23, 2011, Mimoza Kusari-Lila was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and Minister of Trade and Industry. Another deputy prime minister was Edita Tahiri (2011-2017). On October 2, 2013, she resigned from her posts because of her second candidacy for mayor.

In the second ballot in 2013, Kusari-Lila was elected mayor of the city and municipality of Gjakova . Until 2017, when Ardian Gjini ( AAK ) was elected as his successor, she was the first female mayor in the history of Kosovo.

After party conflicts, Kusari-Lila left the AKR in early May 2016. On May 13, 2017, she was elected party leader of the liberal Alternativa . She founded this party in February of that year with Ilir Deda . In the 2017 parliamentary elections , the electoral alliance (LAA coalition) of Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës (LDK), Aleanca Kosova e Re and Alternativa received a total of 25.53% and 29 seats. Kusari-Lila and Deda won the two seats for the Alternativa, while the Aleanca entered parliament with three seats in August 2017.

Web links

Commons : Mimoza Kusari-Lila  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NDI : Mimoza Kusari-Lila .
personal data
SURNAME Kusari purple, Mimoza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kusari, Mimoza (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kosovar politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Đakovica , SFR Yugoslavia , today Kosovo