Shpend Ahmeti

Shpend A. Ahmeti (born 18 April 1978) is a prominent politician of Kosovo. He was leader of the New Spirit Party, which has since been merged into Vetëvendosje!, of which he is vice chairman. He is currently the Mayor-elect of Pristina. Ahmeti ended 15 years of LDK tenure in the capital of Kosovo. Ahmeti lectured public policy at the American University in Kosovo until he became mayor.^[2][3][4]

In the first round of elections on 3 November 2013, Ahmeti was some 8,000 votes behind Isa Mustafa, but in the second round on 1 December 2013 he won by some 2,500 votes. Mustafa accused Ahmeti of fraud.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

Education

Ahmeti reportedly studied applied economics and business administration at the American University in Bulgaria, and public administration at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (2002—04).

Employment

Ahmeti worked for World Bank on Kosovo's Public Expenditure Review, and for European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.^[17]

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