Aferdita Sylaj Shehu - Kosovo is a teaching assistant at the International Management University. Ms. Sylaj Shehu’s distinguished record speaks for itself. During her tenure as Executive Director, CBM has delivered sophisticated, large-scale projects benefiting citizens from all communities, and maintained an incomparable degree of efficiency, transparency, and accountability. Ms. Sylaj Shehu is capable, professional, and diligent, ambitious in her aspiration for peaceful coexistence between communities in northern Kosovo, and relentless in pursuit of meaningful change to improve the lives of ordinary citizens, especially women and youth. Ms Sylaj Shehu embodies many of the characteristics such as credibility, integrity, objectivity, and public-spiritedness. Her many years of executive-level management experience is especially in the execution of its strategic, compliance, budget review, and personnel appointment functions.
Ms. Sylaj Shehu has more than 20 years of experience in the Civil Society. She is a founder of the Mitrovica Women Association for Human Rights, Mitrovica Women Business Association, Mitrovica Region Monitoring Team (A network of more than 25 NGOs from the Mitrovica region), and the Master Program for Transitional Justice at Pristina University, state university in Kosovo.