Agon Demjaha was the first executive director of the Center for the Development of Civil Society (CeDeCis) which would later be known as KCSF. Although he remained in this position for only about a year, he led CeDeCis in the founding process as a delegate of the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, and then in the first activities in 1998 until the end of the war in June 1999. Also, together with Lulëzi Peci and Steven Sampson, he was one of the three who registered the organization after the liberation, on December 2, 1999, now under the name Kosovo Foundation for Civil Society (KCSF).
Agon holds an MA in International Relations and European Studies as well as a PhD in Political Science. He has more than four decades of experience in the field of university teaching, diplomacy and the non-governmental sector. During this period, he published many articles in the field of political science in various international journals, and he is also the author of various chapters in books by well-known publishing houses such as the United Nations University Press, Imperial College Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
During 2006-2010, he served as North Macedonia’s ambassador to Sweden, and during that period he also covered Norway and Finland as a non-resident ambassador. In the period 2010-2012, he was engaged as an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as to the Minister of Economic Development in the Government of Kosovo.
He is currently employed as an associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of Tetovo in North Macedonia, while continuing his involvement in the areas of ethnic relations, conflict prevention and resolution, regional cooperation and diplomacy.
