Taulant Hoxha was appointed CEO of KCSF in September 2018, having previously held various positions in the organization for over 11 years, since 2007.
Taulant led KCSF through a period of continuous growth of the organization both in terms of quality and volume of work, as well as the volume of financial and human resources. Building on the excellent work of the previous leadership of Venera Hajrullah, during 2019 Taulant led the KCSF team in establishing the EJA Kosovo program, as the first mechanism in Kosovo and in the region where multiple donors pool funds into a unique program led by a local organization. Also, during this period, KCSF further improved the transparency and integrity of grant awarding, by increasing the number of support instruments, creating public teams of external evaluators, starting public interviews during selection, etc. Also, this period marked the creation of new capacity building programs for civil society organizations and activists, as well as the protection and further improvement of the legal environment and policies for civil engagement and civil society.
Graduated in political science, Taulant has been a civil society activist for more than two decades, engaged in various initiatives and organizations at the local and central level. He also did study programs at the European Center for Non-Profit Law – ECNL in Budapest on the topic of public benefit status, as
well as at the City University of New York – CUNI on the topic of community philanthropy, with an emphasis on diaspora philanthropy.
Before joining KCSF, he worked as a consultant for youth work at the Council of Europe in 2002-2004, as well as the first executive director of the non-governmental organization “Emancipimi Civil Ma Ndryshe” in the period 2006-2007. Also, he was the president of the Association of Basketball Referees of Kosovo in the period 2008-2009. year, while he was also acting director of the Secretariat of the CiviKos platform in the period 2010-2011. From 2012 to 2022, he served as the head of the CiviKos Platform Board. He published dozens of studies and articles in the country and abroad related to civil society, while he actively participated and led many initiatives for the protection and progress of civil space and civil society in Kosovo and in the region. Among other things, he was part of the group of experts for the development of the regional Environmental Monitoring Matrix for civil society, as well as part of the expert consulting teams for the development of the EU Guide for civil society in the enlargement countries 2014-2020, as well as the Guidelines of the Venice Commission on freedom of association. In Kosovo, he was an active part of dozens of working groups for drafting laws, policies and strategies related to the work of civil society in Kosovo.
Since 2020, he has held the position of deputy. head of the Committee of the Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN).
