Krenar Gashi

Krenar Gashi (born 1982) is Kosovar political scientist, currently based in Belgium as a Basileus doctoral fellow at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University.[1] His research interest include the politics and foreign policy of the European Union, democratization and democratic transition, political systems and party politics, with a special focus on the relations between the EU and the countries of the Western Balkans.

He studied sociology at the University of Pristina, and obtained an MA in Journalism and Communication. In 2013, Gashi obtained an MA (with distinction) in European Politics from the University of Sussex, where was also awarded the Jean Monnet Prize by the Sussex European Institute.[2]

Gashi started his career as a reporter, having worked for key Kosovo print and broadcast media. He reported for the Financial Times [3] and was the Kosovo Editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, where he edited Balkan Insight [4] and established Kosovo’s only English-language newspaper Prishtina Insight.

In 2009, Gashi joined KIPRED institute, Kosovo’s first think tank, initially as a research director and later executive director. In 2011 he established the Institute for Development Policy (INDEP) a think tank that focuses on democratisation and sustainable development.[5] Under Gashi’s leadership INDEP became the most influential think tank in Kosovo, having worked closely with the Kosovo Assembly and its parliamentary committees.

His publications include papers on democratization, election reform, development policy and European integration.[6] He writes Kosovo sections of Bertelsmann Foundation’s Transformation Index [7] and Freedom House’s Nation in Transit report, which is one of the most eminent publication assessing the democratization process in the world.

His frequent appearances in national and international media made him a leading public intellectual and he engages in public debates on politics of Kosovo, the Western Balkans and European Union.[8][9][10]

Awards

- Best Written Story in Kosovo 2007, awarded by the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo
- Chevening Scholarship 2012/13, awarded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- The Jean Monnet Prize 2013, awarded by the Sussex European Institute
- Basileus V Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, awarded by the European Commission

Recent Publications

External links

References

  1. ↑ Official Website of the Centre for EU Studies
  2. ↑ Sussex Library, Official Website
  3. ↑ Gashi’s stories in the Financial Times
  4. ↑ Gashi’s stories in Balkan Insight
  5. ↑ Official website of the Institute for Development Policy
  6. ↑ Krenar Gashi’s official website
  7. ↑ Bertelsmann Transformation Index
  8. ↑ Gashi's interview on Kosovo's 2014 political stalemate for the Tribuna daily (in Albanian language)
  9. ↑ Gashi's interview for Blic Newspaper
  10. ↑ Gashi's interview on peacekeeping in Kosovo for Voice of Russia