CURRICULUM VITAE

Name and surname: Jehona Hyseni

Address: Bregu i Diellit, Zona ‘Qender” Rr. Elez Geci lam 1/7; 10000, Pristina, Republic of Kosovo
Contacts: Cell+383-45-286-136 Email: jehona2029@aol.com
General profile
Extensive experience in international projects, in project management, administrative, legal assistance and
organizational roles, in key areas of Justice System of Kosovo (20 years), and two years in Economic
development (SME).

Work experience
June 2015-Present
Employer: British Embassy in Kosovo
Title: Project Delivery Assistant - Rule of Law Team – British Embassy Pristina

Support for rule of law work program, on all Rule of Law CSSF and Projects (currently managing Project
‘Monitoring the judicial and prosecutorial systems in Kosovo and assisting in the Project “Strengthening the
judicial system of Kosovo”)
Assist in designing projects and identifying partners, maintain close contact with stakeholders and project
implementers, direct project management and assistance in project management (both), contribute to
quarterly and annual reports, business delivery plan, assist in drafting implementer project results frameworks,
implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs and outcome, review
and collaborate with Implementer on project deliverables. Administrative and project financial oversight from
the donor position (preparing documents for signing contracts and contract addenda, scrutinizing ABBs,
checking if the spend is in line with forecast and deliverables and there is value for money, passing
implementer’s invoices for payments to FCDO)

Contribution to the Corporate Department work (5% of annual objectives): Beyondplastic Champion in the
British Embassy Pristina for the past 3-4 years (– As a Green Champion for Beyond Plastic, a pledge of
Foreign Commonwealth Office pledge to remove all single use plastic from all of its Posts everywhere in the
World by 2021, I have designed also a Project to do a campaign to remove single use plastic also from the
British Embassy Projects Implementing Companies and NGOs in Kosovo, which are funded from the FCO
CSSF Programme) support Annual Brit Talks (similar to TED talks) and Queens birthday party (QBP) for 4-
5 years. Currently member of the Wellbeing Committee.

Oct.2011–April 2015
Employer: USAID funded Project ‘Effective Rule of Law Program in Kosovo’
Implementer: Checcchi Consulting and Company [contracted from Management systems
International –MSI]
Title: Program Assistant – Legal

Job description:
▪ Assist EROL Staff in performing legal, statistical, and documentary research and analysis related to
international standards and Kosovo law.
▪ Assist EROL staff in coordinating trainers and participating in all activities related to training.
▪ Translate legal and other documents from English to Albanian or vice versa.
▪ Draft correspondence and other documents for review by EROL staff; Other duties as assigned.

Specific accomplished duties in this capacity in EROL Program:

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Main duties pertained to Component 3 of this Program- Improve Professionalism of Justice System Actors,
with emphasis on the Kosovo Judicial Institute and Kosovo Constitutional Court activities and Component 1
of this Program – Effective Operations of Justice Sector Institutions.

▪ Legal Research on the topics (the only assistant in the first Conference) and assistance to planning
and organization of two Kosovo Constitutional Court Annual Conferences.
▪ Assistance to all trainings and workshops for Judges and Legal Advisors of the Kosovo Constitutional
Court
▪ The only Legal assistant to STA on the preparation and publication of the Bulletin of Case Laws for
the Kosovo Constitutional Court.
▪ One of the Evaluators for Program’s contract bids of sub-contractors
▪ The only Assistant in KCC database and search engine Project.
▪ The main Assistant in coordinating and overseeing implementation of KCC new CDMS
▪ The only Assistant in database and CMS for MoJ Justice Division for Judicial Litigation/State
Advocacy Office and Department for International Legal Cooperation.
▪ Assistance to STA in development of manual and Workshops for MoJ Department for International
Legal Cooperation
▪ Assistance in preparation of the Training Modules and Organization of Trainings for Kosovo Judicial
Institute (KJI) during the entire EROL Program on KJI Trainings.
▪ Assistant in the implementation of the lasts KJI database and website Project.
▪ In charge of writing Success Stories for Component 3 of the EROL Program and follow up on
Performance and Monitoring data for trainings of Component 3.
▪ Legal Drafting [written first drafts of regulations for Kosovo Judicial Council [KJC] with supervision
of the Program Legal Specialists]
▪ Support staff in the organization of Inauguration ceremonies for Court Buildings in Kosovo,
including assistance to the PR Specialist in printing invitations and other logistical tasks and any
other.

Jun - Aug 2010

Employer: US Company - implementer of United States Department of Justice Intermittent Legal
Advisor Project / Support to Ministry of Justice in amending the Criminal Code and Criminal
Procedure Code of Kosovo
Title: Legal Assistant (Under short term consultancy contract with a US Company)

Duties: Legal Assistant to the Legal Advisor in reviewing and drafting amendments to the Criminal Code of
Kosovo, including legal research and analysis, translation, reporting etc

Jul 2008 - Jun 2010

Employer: European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo (current EU Office in Kosovo) Pristina
10000 Kosovo
Title: Project Officer /Economic Development

In charge of my own portfolio of Projects, tasked to manage completely, with the obligation to report to the
sector Team Leader and Chief of Operations. Projects involved Service Contracts, Supply Contracts and
Grants (evaluation and supervision of implementation of all three types of Contracts).

Projects managed: Investment Promotion supporting the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Investment
Promotion Agency of Kosovo), Business Support Services, Poverty Alleviation in Marginalized
Municipalities, Promoting Local Enterprise Development and Employment in Mitrovica/Zvecan, EU SME
support through Turn Around Management, SME Support through Ministry of Trade and Industry.

List of main tasks:

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 ▪ Assessment of future Programs and project needs;
▪ Liaison with implementing partners, EU Member States, technical assistance teams and donor
organizations;
▪ Assist in preparing Terms of Reference, tender dossiers, field missions and other technical reports,
field visits to monitor project progress;
▪ Evaluation of tenders and other tasks as required, follow up with Agency finance division staff on
contracts and payment issues;
▪ Participate in the preparation of periodic reports
▪ Translation and Interpretation as needed

May 2006-Jul 2008

Employer: European Agency for Reconstruction -EAR (preceded the current EU Office in Kosovo)
Title: Task Manager – Justice and Home Affairs Department

Projects:
Integrated Border Management, Support to Justice/Ministry of Justice, Support to Juvenile Justice System,
Border Police Training, Border Equipment, Court Management Information System-CMIS I, II and III
Projects, Further Support to CMIS etc. Projects involved Service Contracts, Supply Contracts and Grants
(evaluation and supervision of implementation)

▪ Task Manager In Operations Project (service contracts/technical assistance contracts, grants and
supply contracts), closely supervised by the Program Manager
▪ Ensure the follow up on implementation of ongoing Programs and assessment of future Programs
and project needs;
▪ Liaison with implementing partners from UNMIK relevant institutions and services of the PISG
(Provisional Institutions of Self-Government), EU Member States, technical assistance teams and
donor organizations;
▪ Assist in preparing Terms of Reference, tender dossiers, field missions and other technical reports,
field visits to monitor project progress;
▪ Evaluation of tenders and other tasks as required;
▪ Follow up with Agency finance division staff on contracts and payment issue;
▪ Participate in the preparation of periodic reports.
▪ Translation and Interpretation as needed

Feb 2000-April 2006

Employer: USAID funded American Bar Association/Central and Eurasian Law Initiative
(ABA/CEELI)
Title: Legal Assistant

Description of your duties and related accomplishments: Duties: Assist the Liaisons and Director in Project
planning, development, implementation and supervision of projects and program; Legal research, drafting
correspondence and legal memoranda on applicable law; Organizing and preparing training events;
translating/proofreading documents and interpreting on a need basis; Reporting.

Specific completed tasks to note:

▪ Organization of first criminal trainings for Kosovo Judges, Attorneys and Prosecutors after the
Kosovo conflict;
▪ Legal Assistant to ABA/CEELI projects related to relevant legislation, specifically drafting of
Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code of Kosovo;
▪ Founding and Management of the Component of Continuing Legal Education in the Kosovo
Chamber of Advocates

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 ▪ Representing ABA/CEELI and establishing the Human Rights Center at the University of Pristina
▪ Representing ABA/CEELI in the Kosovo Judicial Institute regular meetings for KJI Assessment of
Training Needs
▪ Assist closely in the development of Code of Ethics for Judges
▪ Part of the assessment team in assessment projects for the Progress of Legal Reform in Kosovo e.g.
Judicial Reform Index 2002 and 2004, Legal Profession Reform Index 2004 and update of it in 2005

Education

2014 Law Faculty, University of Pristina, BA General Law (11 exams remaining to graduate)

1996 Secondary school graduate-Natural Sciences, Gymnasium

“Xhevdet Doda” Pristina

Continuous Professional Development

Trainings and courses completed

2021/2022
- FCDO certified Contract Management Foundation Level Course (ongoing)
- FCDO course Evaluation and Monitoring core concepts (completion evidence)

2019
- Commercial Contract Management Training (internal training held in Skopje British Embassy)

2015/2016

- CSSF Project Management and other internal FCDO initial trainings

2013
- RFK Training Institute of the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK
Center) and the American University Washington College of Law (AU--‐WCL) scholarship award
to participate in the First Training Program on International Human Rights Protection
Mechanisms, Florence, Italy 9- 14 September, 2013.

2006/2007
- Training on Environmental Mainstreaming;
- Training on MS Office Programme PRI Project level 1;
- Training on MS Office Programme PRI Excel level 2
- Training on Anti corruption
- Training on Public administration reform, public finance and justice and home affairs
- First Aid Course

2004

- Professional writing, American University in Kosovo-English Language Institute (certificate

available)

2003
- Human Rights Rule of Law and Democracy - Building - Kosovo Law Center, OSCE Human Rights
Department in co-operation with the University of Prishtina (certificate available)

2002

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 - Contemporary International Business Transactions, One Semester Course organized from the
Transitional Department of Trade and Industry, EU, in cooperation with the University of Pristina
(certificate available)

2001

- Legal Drafting in Plain Language (English)-undergraduate level course. Kosovo Summer University
(certificate available)

- An Introduction to American Administrative Law and the Uses of Alternative Dispute Resolution
– workshop, Institute for Administrative Justice, University of The Pacific, McGeorge School of
Law, Sacramento, California.

On the job study visits abroad:

2001 -2006

- 1 week training on Criminal Procedure of ICTY and study visit to International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Hague, the Netherlands

- 2 weeks training on Human Rights Protections in Democratic Justice Systems, (in relation
to the amended Criminal Procedure Code of Kosovo), CEELI Institute, Prague, Czech
Republic, organized from ABA/CEELI and funded from USAID

- 2 weeks study visit, Bar Organization Development Training Program, Minneapolis, MN

and Washington, DC.

Languages

▪ Mother tongue: Albanian

▪ Read/write/speak English (fluent)

Serbian (very good)
Macedonian (very good understanding and reading, basic speaking)

▪ Read/write/speak: French [Diplôme d'études en langue française (DELF)

Niveau A1, /Diploma in French Studies, Level A1, issued from
France Ministry of Education]

ANNEX – Contact for references

References:

Altina Besimi, British Embassy Pristina, Policy Delivery Officer,: Line Manager (current employmet) Email:
Altina.Besimi@fcdo.gov.uk office mobile: +38344217108

Rreze Hoxha – Zhuja LLM from Ohio State University Moritz Collage of Law, Research Fellow at Group for
Legal and Political Studies Office tel: +381 38 234 456 mobile: +383 44 473 749 email:
rreze.hoxha@legalpoliticalstudies.org Implementer for the Project I managed (FCDO British Embassy
Project/ended 31 March 2022)

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Diana Cassel, Former Head of Corporates at the British Embassy Pristina, currently Acquisition and Assistant
Specialist/Cost and Price Analyst (USPC) in USAID Email: diana.cassel@me.com mobile: +383 44 501 851

Bardha Maxhuni, former Rule of Law Policy Delivery Officer in British Embassy Pristina and current expert
at Ministry of Justice for the Project Strengthening the Judicial System in Kosovo - British Embassy Pristina
Project; Mobile: +383 44 519 270 Email: Bardha.Maxhuni@rks-gov.net and bardhamaxhuni@gmail.com

Other:

William Danny, Former Head of Rule of Law, British Embassy Pristina FCDO, Currently working for
FCDO in another Programme Email: william.danny@fcdo.gov.uk

Ardita Metaj, former expert at Ministry of Justice for the Project Strengthening the Judicial System in Kosovo
Mobile: +383 44 153 852; Email: arditametaj@yahoo.com

Bardha Maxhuni, former Rule of Law Policy Delivery Officer in British Embassy Pristina and current expert
at Ministry of Justice for the Project Strengthening the Judicial System in Kosovo - British Embassy Pristina
Project; Mobile: +383 44 519 270 Email: Bardha.Maxhuni@rks-gov.net and bardhamaxhuni@gmail.com

Charles A. Ericksen, Ed.D. Judicial Training Adviser, Effective Rule of Law Program, former supervisor
[Supervisor, EROL Program: do not possess his contacts apart from Facebook. I have send a message to
him in facebook to get his updated contacts)

Steven Swanson, Judicial Training Adviser, Judge, swansontravel@hotmail.com [Supervisor, EROL

Program]

Gresa Caka, Constitutional Court Judge, Cell Phone: +383 45 101-201 and +383 45 124-926, Email:
gresa.caka@gjk-ks.org [Former Project Management Specialist, Rule of Law Democracy and Governance
Office] Professor Assistant at the Law Faculty of the Public University “Hasan Prishtina”, Cell phone: +383
44 209-766

Kushtrim Istrefi, Assistant Professor at the International Law Department, Law Facult (lecturer in human
rights law, public international law and european union law, Phd Cand. LLM, Visiting Scholar at Max Planck
Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Email: kushtrim.istrefi@gmail.com [former
USAID EROL Legal Specialist]

Susan Strawn –Prosecutor (USA), Former US Embassy Resident Legal Advisor in the United States Embassy
in Kosovo and former Legal Advisor for amendment of Criminal Code of Kosovo in 2011, Email:
susanstrawn@gmail.com

Prof. Dr.Ismet Salihu , Professor at the Law Faculty of the Pristina University (Criminal Law and
International Criminal Law), drafter of the first Criminal Code of Kosovo and helped its revisions in 2011,
Tel: +377 44/209-766

Sirje Poder, Task Manager, Economic Development, European Commission Liaison Office,
sirje.poder@eeas.europa.eu [Supervisor, European Commission, Team Leader for Economic Development
Section]

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Chiara Minelli, Project Manager, Soges S.p.A. corso Matteotti 39bis, 10121 Torino,
Tel: +39 011 5638 693 - Fax: +39 011 5638 610 , Email: chiara.minelli@sogesnetwork.eu
Web: www.sogesnetwork.eu [ECLO Contractor for projects Investment Promotion and BSC]

Richard W. Lundgren, Former Program Manager-Justice and Home Affairs, European Agency for
Reconstruction; former Legal Advisor at OSCE Kosovo (OMIK); Former Programme Officer Police,
Programme Office, EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, currently UNDP Rule of Law tel: +377 44 911
722; Email: ricwlun@hotmail.com [Supervisor, European Agency for Reconstruction Project Manager for
Justice and Home Affairs]

Prof. Dr.Ismet Salihu , Professor at the Law Faculty of the Pristina University (Criminal Law and
International Criminal Law), drafter of the first Criminal Code of Kosovo and helped its revisions in 2011,
Tel: +377 44/209-766

Gregory Gisvold (former Director for ABA/CEELI Kosovo and Montenegro Offices) Currently Partner at
BlueLaw International, Email: ggisvold@yahoo.com

David Tolbert – currently President at International Center for Transitional Justice [Former Executive
Director of American Bar Association Central European and Euroasian Law Initiative ABA/CEELI]
e-mail: jdavidtolbert@hotmail.com

Prof.Dr. Sc. Iliriana Islami, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, mob. +383 45 266-504,
email: ilirianaislami@ksgov.net