Justina Shiroka-Pula, the New President of Kosovo

With 81 votes in favor, the Assembly of Kosovo, following an extraordinary session, has elected Ms. Justina Shiroka-Pula as the new President of the Republic.
President Justina Shiroka-Pula is an economist and academic by profession, though she has also held political and institutional roles.
In 2025, Shiroka-Pula was elected President of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo (ASHAK), becoming the first woman to lead this institution, which was founded in 1975.
She completed her primary and secondary education in Pristina and graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Pristina in 1976.
She completed her postgraduate studies in the field of economic development theory and policy in 1984 at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Zagreb.
Shiroka-Pula earned her doctorate from the University of Pristina with a thesis titled “Demographic Investments and the Economic Development of Kosovo.”
She began her professional career at the People’s Bank of Kosovo and started working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics in 1978. She also pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Linz in Austria and the University of Arizona in the United States, and completed various professional training programs at different international universities.
In politics, she served as Kosovo’s Minister of Energy and Mining from 2008 to 2011. Subsequently, from 2011 to 2014, she served as a Member of the Assembly of Kosovo.