Agon Maliqi

Agon Maliqi is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. He is also an independent consultant and media writer on topics related to Balkans’ security, democracy, and information space. Maliqi is also a member of the Western Balkans 6 Strategy Group of the Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Stiftung, as well as a founding member of the Kosovo Civic Alternative, a civil society platform fostering positive ethnic relations in Maliqi’s native country.

Maliqi had previously spent most of the past decade in various leading functions at Sbunker, a Pristina-based democracy think tank and analytical media platform, which he co-founded in 2015. Since 2013, he has also worked as a consultant for a wide range of international organizations. In 2019, Maliqi was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC.

Mr. Maliqi holds an MA in international development policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, as well as a degree in political science and international relations, with a double major in European studies, from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). Originally from Prishtina, Kosovo, he is currently based in Tirana, Albania.