Board Member
Dr Florian Qehaja is one of the co-founders of KCSS and served as its director from 2011-2019. He currently serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kosovo to the Republic of North Macedonia. He coordinated the bilateral support of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence (through CIDS) in Kosovo MoD and MiA. He completed the flagship defence programme of Royal College for Defence Studies (RCDS) in London. Florian Qehaja has a post-doc from Columbia University (SIPA) as a Fulbright Scholar. He is a Doctor of Science on security studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Moreover, he has graduated at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) in Contemporary European Studies (MA) as an OSI/Chevening grantee whereas, he obtained Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the University of Prishtina. He is married and has two sons.
