Shpend Ahmeti


Shpend Ali Ahmeti is a Kosovar politician who is currently the Mayor of Pristina. Ahmeti is a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo. He was leader of the New Spirit Party, in which merged into Vetëvendosje in 2011, and served as their vice chairman until he left the party in 2018. Ahmeti ended 15 years of LDK tenure in the capital of Kosovo. Ahmeti lectured public policy at the American University in Kosovo before he became mayor.
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.

Education

He has completed university studies in Economics and Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria, during the years 1996–2000, specializing in Applied Economics and Business Administration.
During the studies between the years 1999–2002, Mr. Ahmeti was senator and then the President of the Student Government at American University in Bulgaria, as well as leader of various communities through the period of reforms at university. At the American Universities, involvement in the students’ government is the experience that combines knowledge, organization, confronting the protection of the rights and responsibility of faith from friends and colleagues.

Employment

Ahmeti worked for World Bank on , and for European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.