Mimoza Kusari-Lila
| Mimoza Kusari-Lila | |
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Mimoza Kusari-Lila
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| Leader of Alternativa | |
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Assumed office February 8 2017 |
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| Preceded by | New Office |
| Mayor of Gjakova | |
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In office January 2014 – July 2017 |
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| Deputy | Ramadan Hoti |
| Preceded by | Pal Lekaj |
| Minister of Trade and Industry | |
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In office 23 February 2011 – 2 October 2013 |
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| President | Atifete Jahjaga |
| Preceded by | Lutfi Zharku |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Nikaj |
| Personal details | |
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Mimoza Kusari 16 October 1975 Đakovica, SFR Yugoslavia (now Gjakova, Kosovo) |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Political party |
New Kosovo Alliance (2009–2016) The Alternative (2017–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Arben Lila |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
University of Prishtina University of Colorado Duquesne University (MBA) |
| Known for | Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo First women mayor in Kosovo and Gjakova |
Mimoza Kusari-Lila (born 16 October 1975) is an Albanian Kosovar politician for The Alternative. She has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and Minister of Trade and Industry from 2011 to 2013 and as the Mayor of Gjakova from November 2013 to 2017.
Mimoza Kusari Lila was born 16 October 1975 in Gjakova. Her father is a pulmonologist and her mother is a teacher of Albanian language and literature in elementary school. Her family lived for a short time in Peja. Finally they returned to Gjakova with their four children in the mid 80s.
Kusari finished the high school at the "Hajdar Dushi" Gymnasium, and after that registered in the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Economics. She graduated in the "Management and Informations Systems", working full-time to fund her studies in a time of economic crisis and political repression. In 1998-1999, when the conflict broke out in Kosovo, she worked for organizations as Doctors Without Borders and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
During the Kosovo war, while working in a refugee camp for National Public Radio (U.S. Radio, National Public Radio NPR) in Republic of Macedonia, she won the prestigious Ron Brown Scholarship from the United States Department of State to pursue a MBA in the United States.
During her stay in the United States, she continued studies at the Institute of Economics, University of Colorado, and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she completed her masters in e-business. During this time she was very active in organizing student community and showing leadership skills. She founded and served as first president of the Association of Business Women of Duquesne University and was one of three scholarship holders from Eastern Europe of Ron Brown invited to participate in the celebration of International Education Week by Secretary of State Madelaine Albright in Washington DC. After her studies, she worked as an intern at Bayer Corporation of North America in Pittsburgh, department of e-sales.
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