Petrit Selimi  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. His work in the public sector since then has also focused on digital diplomacy. 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.

Selimi’s 2025-2027 CPD Research Fellowship project, "Public and Digital Diplomacy in Post-Conflict Nation-Building: The Case of Kosovo,"  will analyze Kosovo’s nation-building efforts through public and digital diplomacy, investigating key diplomatic initiatives, including interfaith dialogue and digital diplomacy.