Petrit Selimi is the former Foreign minister of the Republic of Kosovo.

He is currently active active in the private sector, engaged both in renewable energy projects as well as digital media landscape. Prior to this, he served as the CEO of Millennium Foundation Kosovo, the country’s biggest non-profit tasked with implementing the $49 million Threshold Program, focused on projects in green energy, open data, and women inclusion in energy sector

Prior to his engagement with the MCC Programs, Petrit served as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosovo in 2016, and as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo in two consecutive mandates from 2010 to 2016. During his tenure in the Government, he established several ground-breaking initiatives in public and digital diplomacy. He was awarded as Team Leader of the Year in Digital Diplomacy in 2013 in a global survey conducted by New Diplomacy magazine, and he is a recipient of the global Doha Award for the Interfaith Dialogue, in recognition of his role promoting global interfaith diplomacy. Selimi is also an alumbi of Marshall Memorial Fellowship with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Prior to engagement in politics and diplomacy, Selimi was active in media and civil society, serving as co-founder and CEO of Gazeta Express and editor in several Kosovar media.

Petrit speaks fluent Albanian, English, South slavic languages, and Norwegian. He has a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo and as a recipient of the Chevening Scholarship, he studied for an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics.

He has lectured on diverse topics at Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, NYU, George Washington University, and LSE, among others. He has also been featured and profiled in global media, such as the Time Magazine, The Economist, Wired Magazine, The Guardian, BBC, NPR, and more.