Engjellushe Morina
Engjellushe Morina is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She works from ECFR’s Berlin office. Her work mainly addresses the geopolitics of EU enlargement, Kosovo-Serbia relations, and the geopolitical aspects of the green agenda. She has many years of research experience and fieldwork in the Balkans, Euro-Atlantic integration, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, violent extremism, and dialogue and mediation. Prior to joining ECFR, she developed and led collaborative research projects on violent extremism and managed other initiatives such as a 1.5 track dialogue in North Macedonia. During the high-level negotiations over Kosovo’s political status led by President Marti Ahtisaari, she served as an expert and consultant in the Cultural Heritage group within the Unity Team (2005-2007). Her work focused on the protection of cultural and religious heritage in Kosovo. She co-founded and ran the Pristina Council on Foreign Relations. She was the executive director of the Kosovar Stability Initiative and worked for the United States Embassy in Pristina. She has also conducted archaeological fieldwork in Egypt, Italy, Albania and the United Kingdom, and research fieldwork in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. She holds degrees from University College London (Institute of Archaeology), Oxford University (Somerville College), and the Hertie School of Governance, in Berlin.
