Izet Ibrahimi (born 1 January 1962) is a Kosovar Albanian retired politician, and a former mayor of

Drenas Drenas or Gllogovc/Gllogoc ( sq-definite, Drenasi or ''Gllogovci/Gllogoci'') or Glogovac ( sr-Cyrl, Глоговац) is a town and municipality in the District of Pristina in Kosovo. The municipality has an area of . According to the last cens ...

. He is currently a

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Biography

Izet Ibrahimi was born in Zabel i Ultë in

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parents. He finished high school in

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in 1981, later attending 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 ...

, from which he graduated in 1987 with a degree in Engineering in Materials and Metallurgy. In 1995 he enrolled in postgraduate studies at FXM. He earned the title Master of Technical Sciences. He received a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the University of Pristina in 2012. Ibrahimi has served as the chairman of the Independent Union of "Ferronikel", chairman of the Municipal Council for Finance, and political chairman of the KLA in the "Operative Zone" of

. Following the adoption of UNSCR 1244, he co-founded the

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(PDK) in Drenas. He was a member of the General Board for three terms. In the first democratic elections after the

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, he ran for Mayor of Drenas and won. After leaving the PDK, Ibrahimi founded the "Citizens Initiative for Glogovac", a political movement that opposed the misrule in Drenas. Following his retirement from politics, he is now a

at the University of Pristina's Faculty of Geoscience, Department of Materials and Metallurgy. Ibrahimi is married to Hanumshahe Zogaj, a geoscience engineer, with whom he has three children: Qëndrim, Hekuran and Erëza.

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