Enver Hoxhaj

For the Albanian communist leader, see Enver Hoxha.

Enver Hoxhaj
2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 22 February 2011 – 12 December 2014
President	Behgjet Pacolli Jakup Krasniqi (Acting) Atifete Jahjaga
Prime Minister	Hashim Thaçi
Preceded by	Skënder Hyseni
Succeeded by	Hashim Thaçi
Personal details
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Kosovo, Yugoslavia
Political party	Democratic Party of Kosovo
Alma mater	University of Pristina

Enver Hoxhaj (born 1969) is the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo and a Member of the Assembly of Kosovo.

Career

Hoxhaj served as a professor at the University of Pristina. He worked at WUS Austria and founded Kosovar Research and Documentation Institute. In March 2004 he joined the Democratic Party of Kosovo. He was Minister of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo. He leads the Kosovo Assembly Committee for Education, Science, Technology, Culture, Youth and Sports. Since 22 February 2011, Hoxhaj has been Minister of Foreign Affairs for Kosovo.

Notes

a.

^ Albanian spelling: Enver Hoxhaj, Serbian spelling: Enver Hodžaj, Енвер Хоџај.

b.

^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.

External links

• Official site (in Albanian, English and Serbo-Croatian)
• Website of Enver Hoxhaj