Gazmend Pula (born in

Pristina Pristina or Prishtina ( , ), . is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and District of Pristina, district. In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdo ...

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) is a Kosovar-Albanian intellectual, human rights campaigner, and is Kosovar ambassador to

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. He is the founder of the Kosovo Helsinki Committee for Human Rights based in Pristina, and has been active in the struggle for the advancement of political and civil liberties in Kosovo, for which he was awarded the US and EU Democracy and Civil Society Award in 1998."Members of the Board of Directors"
''Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe''. Link accessed 12 January 2009. In addition to his civic and political engagements, he holds a PhD in

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

, and is the author of two books on electrical engineering. Prior to being appointed ambassador by the

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, he held the title of

associate professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a position ...

in the

University of Pristina The University of Pristina () is a public university located in Pristina, Kosovo. It is the institution that emerged after the disestablishment of the University of Pristina (1969–1999) as a result of the Kosovo War. The inauguration ...

, Cathedra for Production and Transmission of Electrical Energy. He is married and is the father of two children.

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