Advisory Board is a body which will provide a broader outlook to MoF and advise the MoF team for the different directions the program may take in the future, with the purpose to better its strategic thinking.

Andrew Russell

Advisor

Gunther Fehlinger

Advisor

Gunther Fehlinger, 50 from Linz Austria is serving as SG of CEE BC the voice of Buisness in Central Europe and Central Asia.

Gunther worked as development and investment consultant in Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova and Ukraine. Gunther serves as President of Europeans for Tax Reform and is an advocate of EU, NATO , CEFTA, Euro, Customs Union enlargement to include Free Eastern Europe.

Ferdinand Alimadhi

Advisor

Ferdi Alimadhi is a technology executive and academic with extensive experience in Software Engineering, Leadership, Product Development, and Higher Education.

He is currently working as Director of Engineering at Open Learning , Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has built a world class team working on redefining the use of technology in advancing the science of teaching and learning at MIT and beyond. Prior to joining MIT , Ferdi spent 10 years at Harvard University as Lead Application Architect where he created and led the OpenScholar project, used today by many universities around the world.

Ronit Avni

Advisor

Lauri Tabur

Advisor

About us

Mentoring our Future (MoF) is a mentoring program for Kosovan students at the University of Prishtina. The main aim of this program is to facilitate the transfer of professional knowledge and experience between established professionals and Kosovar students who are interested in developing their career in a respective field. This program will serve as a meeting point of these professionals and as an exchanging space of their professional experience, therefore this networking will be an address where the community will communicate and benefit in different areas.

Mentoring our Future

Andrew Russell

Andrew Russell is an expert in peacebuilding and organizational change, with close to three decades of experience in the United Nations. He brings in-depth knowledge of UN programme and operations both at Headquarters and in the field. Mr. Russell has worked in several Latin American countries, Cyprus and, most recently, in Kosovo, where he served as UN Development Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative.

He designed and oversaw implementation of programmes dealing with the promotion of social dialogue, civic engagement and civil society participation in national development processes, as well as territorial-based approaches to integrated local development. He holds specialized expertise in crisis prevention and recovery and his field experiences have been in the context of managing programmes in support of the transition from conflict to peace and development and promoting multi-stakeholder dialogue in ethnically or politically divided contexts.

He has also served in corporate managerial positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as the Coordinator of the Management Consulting Team with UNDP’s Bureau of Management. Mr. Russell holds a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University and he also taught development and peace building studies at the undergraduate and graduate level as an adjunct lecturer at Haverford College and Columbia University. He is currently the Senior Advisor to the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management.

Gunther Fehlinger

Gunther Fehlinger, 50 from Linz Austria is serving as SG of CEE BC the voice of Buisness in Central Europe and Central Asia.

Gunther worked as development and investment consultant in Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova and Ukraine. Gunther serves as President of Europeans for Tax Reform and is an advocate of EU, NATO , CEFTA, Euro, Customs Union enlargement to include Free Eastern Europe.

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Ferdinand Alimadhi

Ferdi Alimadhi is a technology executive and academic with extensive experience in Software Engineering, Leadership, Product Development, and Higher Education.
He is currently working as Director of Engineering at Open Learning , Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has built a world class team working on redefining the use of technology in advancing the science of teaching and learning at MIT and beyond. Prior to joining MIT , Ferdi spent 10 years at Harvard University as Lead Application Architect where he created and led the OpenScholar project, used today by many universities around the world.

Ferdi started his career in Albania, first as a programmer at Albanian Ministry of Finance and later teaching computer science at the University of New York Tirana. In USA he has worked for and consulted a variety of small and large companies and institutions, building teams and products, ranging from statistical tools and machine learning to large scale web applications.

Ferdi holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Tirana, Albania; a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and a Master of Liberal Arts in Software Engineering from Harvard University.

Ronit Avni

Ronit Avni is the founder and CEO of Localized, a technology company that provides aspiring professionals in emerging markets with pathways to employment and career guidance from global professionals in the fields of the future who share language, culture and roots. Previously, she founded the media and education organization, Just Vision, which won a Peabody and the Puma Creative Impact Award. Just Vision was featured on the TED stage and in every major news outlet. Named a Young Global Leader through the World Economic Forum and a Halcyon Fellow, Ronit sits on the jury of the Global Teacher Prize.

Lauri Tabur

Lauri Tabur is a change management expert and former Rector of Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, the university of applied sciences preparing staff for most of Estonian government agencies wearing uniforms. He has been awarded with Estonian National Best Top Managers Prize in 2014 and Estonian Dream Employer Prize of 2013. After 25 years of successful career in Estonian public service he is now committed to change management and leadership challenges around the world.

Lauri has been working with Kosovo institutions since 2012 when his Academy together with counterparts from Finland began to support establishment of Kosovo Academy of Public Safety in Vushtrri. Today the academy, similar to the one in Estonia, is well functioning and has already been awarded with highest possible national and international accreditations, making it one of the real success stories of Western Balkans.