Enver Hoxhaj

Enver Hoxhaj (* 1969 in Suva Reka, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Kosovar politician ( PDK) and historians. Since 22 February 2011, he heads the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo.

Career

Hoxhaj studied history at the University of Prishtina, where he earned his first degree in 1993. For his PhD, he conducted research between 1994 and 2000, especially in Vienna. Furthermore, he held on to universities in Berlin, Munich, Rome, Bologna, Florence and Paris.

During his stay in Austria, he was a research associate at the University of Vienna between 1996 and 2000 and head of a research group on the history of the Balkans at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights. He received his doctorate in 2000 with a thesis on "Studies on the history of Kosova in the Roman period: military, cities, society and population " at the archaeologist Renate Pillinger at the University of Vienna.

Between 2003 and 2004, conducted research Hoxhaj as a Fellow at the London School of Economics at the city's Center for Study of the Global Governance. Hoxhaj has presented scientific papers in English, German and Albanian, especially on the issues of nationalism and national identity and ethnic conflicts. He was a member of the delegation of Kosovo in the negotiations on the independence of Kosovo, between 2005 and 2007 in Vienna took place and were led by the Finnish diplomat and UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari.

In 2006 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Prishtina. In January 2008 he was appointed Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Kosovo. He is a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo ( PDK). Furthermore Hoxhaj was chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture and Youth of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo.

Since 2011 he has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo.

Private

Hoxhaj speaks and writes fluent English, German and Serbo-Croatian. He lives in Pristina, is married and has two children.