Dr.Ketrina Çabiri Mijo has completed her PHD on Corruption and Decision Making in Public Procurement at the European University of Tirana, followed by a fellowship at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Essex University (2016), supported by the Civil Society Scholar Award and a research stay at the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology, University of Salzburg as a Sigma Agile Fellow (2015). Ketrina received a master’s degree in European Politics from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom in 2009. Ketrina research alumni of TRAIN programme ‘Fostering Policy Dialogue in the Western Balkans’ lead by German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in 2017.
Since 2011 Ketrina has been working at the Office for Project and Internationalization at the European University of Tirana and currently she is the Head of Office. Previously she has worked as an expert of European Research Programs in the Agency for Research, Technology and Innovation in the Council of Ministers in Albania. She has extensive experience in project writing and management, while she has been involved in several EU Projects such as Tempus, IPA CBC/Interreg MED/Balkan Med, LLP/Jean Monnet, ERASMUS +, ESPON and other national and international donors. Ketrina is a project evaluator contracted in different EU programmes (COST, EIT) and national agencies (AKSSHI). Ketrina is teaching ‘Public Policy’, ‘Introduction to Public Administration’ in both MA and MA at the European University of Tirana. From 2022-2023 Ketrina is a guest Lecturer at FH Joanneum University in Graz, teaching ‘Project Design and Management’.
Ketrina has published in national and international journals and publishing houses, such as Bentham Science Publishers, Kluwer Law International, Oxford University Press, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (Emerald Publishing), etc.