Anna Di Lellio

Anna Di Lellio is a sociologist, journalist and former UN consultant. She wrote several articles related to the UN presence in Kosovo and Iraq.

Life

Di Lellio his doctorate in sociology at Columbia University, holds a Master in Management of Non -profit and Public Policy at New York University and a BA in philosophy from the University of Perugia, Italy.

She worked as a consultant for the World Food Programme of the United Nations in Kosovo and East Timor to 1999 and from 2003 as coordinator of the 5,000 -strong Kosovo Protection Corps ( KPC), whose members were often recruited from the KLA. From 2001 to 2003 she was a " Commissioner for Media of Kosovo " on behalf of the OSCE. After that she wrote in the Guardian about media law and politics in so-called "post -conflict areas" in which they called the expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo Ethnic Cleansing.

Back in New York, she was the director of communications for the UN by Paul Volcker 's " Independent Investigation Commission " of the oil - for-food program appointed. This activity she finished in September 2004, under pressure from the U.S. government, as they said in an article for the Guardian (2002), George W. Bush and Silvio Berlusconi did not differ much from Osama bin Laden.

In 2005, she was an election observer, a human rights organization in Tajikistan and 2006, consultant of the Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Çeku on behalf of the " Capacity Building Facility of UNEP and the " Kosova Foundation for Open Society " ( KFOS ) by George Soros. Tue Lellio warned Çeku that a teilunabhänges Kosovo would soon end in the political violence of the West Bank.

She is an Associate Professor of International Relations of The New School (formerly New School University ) in New York and editor of the book " The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence", an anthology of essays on the future of Kosovo.