President of the Republic of Kosovo, 22 February – 30 March 2011<\/p>\n
Date, place of birth, family: 30 August 1951, Marec, Pristina. Son to Isa and Nazmije. Married to Masha, Russian-Swiss citizen of Buryat- Tatarian descend. Parent to five children: three daughters and two sons (Arb\u00ebresha, Selena, Hana, Isa and Diar).<\/p>\n
Education:\u00a0 Elementary and secondary education, the Normal High School and Gymnasium in Pristina).<\/p>\n
1970-1973 Institut f\u00fcr Au\u00dfenhandel, Hamburg Universitat, Foreign Trade Institute, Hamburg University<\/p>\n
1982-1983 Master in Marketing and Management \u2013M\u00f6singer Zurich Institute.<\/p>\n
Professional profile: 1974-1975 Foreign Language Correspondent with the Directorate of Development, Textile Combine, Gjilan.<\/p>\n
1976 Commercial Director in the Peter Zimmern Company, Austria. <\/p>\n
Interplastica Project Engeneering Company in Morbio Inf. Switzerland.<\/p>\n
1977-1983 Commercial Director <\/p>\n
1983-1990 Director General<\/p>\n
1990-2009 Founder and President of Mabetex Project Engineering, Lugano, Switzerland.<\/p>\n
1992-2009 President of CRS-Credito per lo sviluppo e ristrutturazione, Lugano Switzerland; President of Mabo Construction. President of Swiss Diamond Hotel Management, Bermuda; Co Krueger Hoch\u2013Tiefbau, Berlin; Co Interfin Finance, London; Co Mabetex International (covering 18 world countries); Owner of\u00a0 Siguria Insurance Company, Pristina; Shareholder in the Economic Bank, Pristina; Owner of Saranda Properties; Co Sine Tempore International; Co BK Anstalt Lichtenstein; Co Diamond Travel; 2009 withdraws from his managerial mandate from all his companies, and remains only an owner of shares regulated according to the legislation of the states in which companies operate.<\/p>\n
Other functions:\u00a0\u00a0
\nMain Sponsor of Aleksand\u00ebr Moisiu Foundation; Founder of Per i Bambini Di Sakha Foundation and orphanages\u00a0\u00a0
\nPromoter and founder of: FORK \u2013 Foundation for the Organization and Reconstruction of Kosovo,\u00a0 Lugano, Pristina;
\nFounder of Albanian Businessmen\u2019s Union, Lugano;
\n2004-2007 Founder of SEED, South-East Europe Development Fund, Washington (a fund that has promoted and lobbied for independence of Kosovo);
\nMember Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, Permanent Consultant to the Committee led by Henry Kissinger;
\nFounder of Ibrahim Kodra Youth Foundation, Lugano;
\nThe New Kosova Alliance Lobbying Organization, Washington, (2005-2007);
\nBehgjet Pacolli Foundation, Pristina;
\nFounder and President of the New Kosova Alliance (AKR) political party (2007);
\nMember of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo (2007-2010);
\nMember of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo (2011).
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\nHumanitarian activities:
\n1993 – Founder and sponsor of a hospital that provides care to abandoned children born with physical problems in Sakha);
\n1999 \u2013 In cooperation with Ms. Fanfani and Children of Peace Foundation, intervenes in providing mass relief to the displaced from Kosovo in Kuk\u00ebs, Ivangrad and elsewhere;
\n1999 \u2013 Support to hospitals in Kosovo with medicines and medical equipment;
\n2000-2004 \u2013 Support for building the KPC infrastructure in Pristina and supply with professional equipment;
\n2005 \u2013 Support for building the memorial centre in Penuh\u00eb, Podujeva;
\n2004 \u2013 Release of hostages in Afghanistan (Shqipe Habibi\u2019s case);
\n2006 \u2013 Release of Gabrielle Torsello, a journalist that had been taken hostage in Afghanistan;
\n2008-2011 \u2013 Permanent lobbying for the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state (over 20 recognitions);
\n2007 \u2013 Contribution to the release of 23 Korean hostages in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n
Some activities carried out by the Behgjet Pacolli Foundation: planning, sponsoring and financing the entire structure of the American University in Kosovo (AUK);
\nSponsoring the expansion of the Faculty of Philology in Pristina;
\nSponsoring cultural and heritage projects in Kosovo;
\nSponsoring sports in Kosovo;
\n20 regular scholarships (in Kosovo and abroad);
\nComplete contribution for the construction of shelters for poor families;
\nAssistance in sending dozens of patients abroad for medical treatment per year;
\nSocial assistance to invalids and persons in need (monthly payments);
\nConstruction of Ibrahim Kodra Museum in Pristina (in progress);
\nDaily assistance to the people in need;
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\nAcknowledgments:
\nKPC Decorations;
\nAcknowledgments and honorary titles from the Rochester University of Technology;
\nDecorations from the AUK (American University in Kosovo)
\nHigh decorations from the State of Peru, the President of Peru;
\nHighest state decoration from the Russian Federation (architectural appraisals), the second foreign citizen to receive the award after the American ARMAND HAMMER;
\nHonorary citizen of Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan;
\nLiberia\u2019s Global Honorary Consul (2002-September 2010);
\n2009 \u2013 Ambassador of Peace (Universal Peace Federation);
\n2010 \u2013 Millennium\u2019s Global Knight of Peace; also awarded by Centro Internazionale per la Pace fra i Popoli (International Centre for Peace Among Peoples) to Mikhail Gorbachev, Perez De Cuellar, S.S. Giovanni Paolo II, Luciano Pavarotti, Helmut Kohl, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, Kofi Annan, Bill Gates, etc;
\nAcknowledgment from the Nelson Mandela Foundation;
\nAcknowledgment from the Clinton Global Initiative Foundation.
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\nLanguages:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Mother tongue: Albanian<\/p>\n
Foreign languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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