Liza Gashi is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora in Kosovo. Ms. Gashi is an executive leader, innovator, social entrepreneur, and policy analyst with experience in migration and diasporas, public and digital diplomacy, civic engagement and advocacy.

Ms. Gashi is the founder and former executive director of GERMIN, a leading regional nonprofit specializing in engaging diaspora communities in advancing the development and democratization of their home countries in Western Balkans. Ms. Gashi and GERMIN
has been at the forefront of shaping the public discourse on diaspora matters and has advocated on the advancement of the country’s policies, legislation
and institutional approaches on diaspora engagement. Ms. Gashi has founded KosovoDiaspora.org, a crowdsourcing digital engagement and diplomacy
platform that has promoted Kosovo’s statehood internationally. She has also founded and previously led the UWC Kosova, an education movement that helped
place talented and youth leaders of Kosovo into world leading education institutions that are part of the United World Colleges network.

Ms. Gashi’s policy and research experience in international development, innovation, foreign policy, and migration matters spans across international and local organizations, including the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein
Sieg, and IREX.

Ms. Gashi is fluent in Albanian, English and Spanish.

She has completed a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at Arizona State University and holds a bachelor’s degree from Wartburg College (IA) in International Relations, Political Science, and Spanish Language and Literature. She is also a proud alumna of United World College in Costa Rica and the National University of Córdoba in Argentina.