Chairwoman of the Board
Teuta Avdimetaj will serve as the Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of KCSS. She is the Chief Development Officer and Adjunct Faculty at RIT Kosovo and a former senior researcher with KCSS. At RIT, she teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence and the Political Good, and The Rhetoric of Terrorism. Her research focuses on preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), gender mainstreaming in the security sector, and the intersection between technology and security. Teuta holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, specializing in International Security with a research focus on sub-state violence and terrorism. She has served as a Policy Adviser to the 4th President of the Republic of Kosovo and as an External Adviser in the Ministry for European Integration, seconded by the Norwegian Embassy in Kosovo. Teuta has also consulted international organizations on P/CVE, including the International Organization for Migration, CIJA US, and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
