Ilir Deda

Senior Research Fellow

Ilir Deda has over two and a halfdecades experience of work in national, regional and international public and non-governmental institutions. His work has influenced decision-making and policy development both at national and international level in Kosovo, and of the Western Balkans within the framework of the Berlin Process and EC implementation of the Common Regional Market (CRM), when heleadand successfully concluded the negotiations on three mobility agreements between Western Balkans Six. He has extensive and deepexperience in national, regional, and international affairs, EU enlargement, democratic governance, security, education and overall institution building and multiethnicity in Kosovo.

Ilir worked at the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC); was a two term elected MP at the Assembly of Kosovo; led KIPRED Institute in Prishtina; was a researcher at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Kosovo, and shortly worked for UNDP HQ in New York. He also served as chief of staff of President Jahjaga. Deda has been a consultant for Council of Europe, ESI, ERSTE Foundation and other organisations. Ilir Deda has an MA in International Affairs and a BA in Political Science and is h7Europe’s Futures Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.