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   Shend Boshnjaku

   01Shend BoshnjakuFounder & CEOPower systems · Policy · Transition strategyMS Energy Systems Management, University of San Francisco — Fulbright Scholar

   Energy-transition and power-systems specialist with more than nine years of experience supporting institutions, development partners, utilities and private-sector stakeholders across Kosovo, the Western Balkans and the United States. His work combines power-system planning, renewable integration, energy policy, economic modeling and implementation strategy.

   • MS Energy Systems Management, University of San Francisco (Fulbright Scholar)
   • MA Energy Efficiency, University of Prishtina
   • BA Energy Management, College ESLG

   • Power Systems
   • Policy
   • Modeling
   • Energy Efficiency
2. KB

   Kreshnik Boshnjaku

   02Kreshnik BoshnjakuSenior Electrical & Energy EngineerElectrical systems · PV · Energy auditsSpecialist planner in building electrical engineering, Germany

   Electrical engineer designing and supervising electrical installations on projects across Kosovo, Albania, Germany, Kazakhstan, Libya, the DRC and the United States. Currently a specialist planner in building electrical engineering in Germany, working on power and cost calculation, technical drawings and execution design; previously ran electrical delivery on a multifunctional centre in Astana and managed an electrical contracting business in Prishtina. The span matters here: he has designed systems, and he has been the person answerable when they were built.

   • Electrical Systems
   • PV Design
   • Energy Audits
   • Project Delivery
3. BN

   Dr. Bledian Nela

   03Dr. Bledian NelaStructural & Building Engineering ExpertStructural assessment · Retrofit · SeismicPhD, Sapienza University of Rome — structural and conservation engineering

   Structural and conservation engineer holding a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome and an advanced masters in the structural analysis of monuments and historical constructions, taken with honours across Minho and Prague. His consultancy work spans investigative testing on existing structures, structural assessment, strengthening design and tender documentation for engineering firms in Rome and Kosovo, alongside teaching structural performance of historical masonry at Sapienza. He is the reason a rooftop PV or retrofit proposal here meets a real load path rather than an assumption.

   • Structural Assessment
   • Retrofit
   • Seismic Risk
   • Building Feasibility
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   Elona Kurti

   04Elona KurtiLegal, Policy & Project Research AssociateEnergy law · Regulatory research · EU alignmentLLM Advanced European Studies in Law

   Lawyer and researcher working where energy decisions meet legal and regulatory reality. Her background spans an LLM in Advanced European Studies in Law, legal practice, legislative and policy analysis, European integration research, and applied research on Kosovo's energy-market liberalisation. She also carries project proposal preparation, implementation support and coordination — the work that moves an analysis from a document into a funded programme.

   • Legal Research
   • Regulatory Analysis
   • Policy Research
   • Project Development
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   Adnan Boshnjaku

   05Adnan BoshnjakuSenior Technical Services & Institutional Operations AdvisorInstitutional operations · FacilitiesTwo decades in public-sector facilities and institutional operations

   Senior technical-services and institutional-operations professional with more than two decades of experience in public-sector facilities, maintenance, logistics and institutional operations.

   • Facilities Operations
   • Maintenance Systems
   • Institutional Implementation
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   Hëna Boshnjaku

   06Hëna BoshnjakuAgriculture & Rural Sustainability ExpertAgriculture · Rural sustainabilityAgronomist and certified agricultural advisor

   Agronomist and certified agricultural advisor working where energy, land and rural livelihoods meet. Her experience runs from assessing farmer applications against the legal framework at Kosovo's agricultural payments directorate to field advisory work under a Swiss- and Austrian-funded rural development programme. Rural energy measures fail for the same reason rural subsidy schemes do — the people expected to operate them were never part of designing them.

   • Rural Development
   • Agriculture
   • Climate Resilience
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   Mimoza Svirca

   07Mimoza SvircaPolicy Research & Stakeholder Engagement AssociatePolicy research · Stakeholder engagementPolitical scientist — research methodology and survey design

   Political scientist working on policy research and stakeholder engagement, with an Erasmus+ exchange at Salzburg behind a Prishtina degree. She has built research methodologies and survey instruments, run desk research and thematic analysis, supported grant and donor documentation, and contributed to social-audit and local-governance research — the evidence-gathering and consultation work that determines whether an analysis reflects the institutions it is written for.

   • Policy Research
   • Stakeholder Engagement
   • Institutional Analysis