
Justina Shiroka-Pula has been elected president of the Republic of Kosovo.
Voting in the Assembly lasted up to 3 minutes after the constitutional deadline.
Shiroka-Pula received 81 votes.
Who is Justina Shiroka-Pula?
Academician Justina Shiroka-Pula is the president of the Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts (ASHAK).
The biography published on the ASHAK website states that Shiroka-Pula was born in 1953 in Pristina. He completed primary school (1968) and secondary school (1972) in Pristina. He successfully graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Pristina in 1976. He continued his postgraduate studies in the field of Theory and Policy of Economic Development at the Faculty of Economic Sciences in Zagreb, where he graduated in 1984. According to the biography, Shiroka-Pula received his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics in Pristina (1977), defending his doctoral thesis entitled "Demographic Investments and Economic Development of Kosovo".
After graduation, she worked for a short time at the National Bank of Kosovo. In 1978, she began her long academic career at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Prishtina as an assistant for the subject “Operational Research”. She went through all the circles of academic advancement, being elected Full Professor in 2004. During her career, she has served as Head of the Department of Management and Informatics, a member of the UP Senate and a member of the UP Board of Directors. She has completed post-doctoral studies and training abroad, including at the University of Linz in Austria and the University of Arizona in the USA.
Shiroka-Pula has also held high public positions. She served as Minister of Energy and Mining in the Government of Kosovo from 2008 to 2011, and was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo from the ranks of the PDK from 2011 to 2014.