United States-Kosovo Educational Exchange Board
About USKEB
The United States-Kosovo Educational Exchange Board (USKEB) is a non-legal advisory board, founded for the purpose of increasing mutual understanding and advancing relations between the people of the United States and Kosovo through educational exchange programming.
The USKEB was formed to advise and assist in prioritizing resources and setting priorities for the United States-Kosovo educational exchange programming, including the Fulbright program for Kosovo, and is supported by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo, and Kosovo’s Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation. USKEB is implemented by American Councils for International Education and Kosovo United States Alumni (KUSA).
Board Members
The USKEB board is comprised of five members, representing the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo, Kosovo’s Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Kosovo United States Alumni (KUSA), and Kosovo’s academia and civil society.
Dajana Berisha
Dajana Berisha is the Executive Director of the Forum for Civic Initiatives. Dajana joined the forum in February 2013 to manage its development and rise in the civil society sector. Her previous professional experiences include policy-making in areas such as employment, social affairs and migration in order to support active employment policies combined with economic assistance for poverty alleviation in the Government of Albania.
Dajana graduated in the field of linguistics and literature, holds an MA in International Migration Policies and Development from the University of Sussex, a Specialization for Strategic Leadership of Civil Society Organizations from Harvard University, has in depth knowledges of Human Rights and Humanitarian Laws due to her extensive training at Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights next to Lund Faculty of Law and was educated and worked in Albania, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, and USA.
Kreshnik Hoti
Kreshnik completed his undergraduate and postgraduate Pharmacy studies at Curtin University, Australia. He returned to Kosovo to contribute at the University of Prishtina (UP) where he currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Kreshnik has academic experience both in Australia, where he developed and coordinated a number of courses and supervised PhD students and in Kosovo, where he served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (2016-2018). Kreshnik was awarded the 2016 Scientist of the Year from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Kosovo.
Kreshnik attended the Open World Leadership program and visited various universities, gaining valuable insight into the United States higher education system. He also hosted a Fulbright specialist from the US in Kosovo. Kreshnik was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and spent a full academic year as Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Nora Latifi-Jashari
Nora is the first Fulbright Foreign Student scholarship recipient through which she earned an MA in Economics from Northern Illinois University, USA. She currently serves as the Executive Director of GAP Institute, which is one of the leading and most influential think tanks in Kosova. She has demonstrated her willingness to contribute to the community several times.
As an alumna, she is involved in local projects implemented by relevant stakeholders to make positive changes to society. She is interested to see the economic empowerment of women in Kosovo, especially when it comes to participation and representation of women in the labor market.