Gazmend Pula

Dr. Gazmend Pula is the founder and head of the Kosovo Helsinki Committee for Human Rights based in Pristina and professor at the University of Pristina.

Dr. Pula holds a Ph.D. in the area of Power System Stability. He completed graduate studies (M.Sc.) in Electrical Power Systems at George Washington University in Washington DC. For his studies in the USA, Dr. Pula was awarded a Fulbright scholarship.

Dr. Pula holds also a postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb and two bachelor degrees, a B.A. from the Department of English Language and Literature in the Philological Faculty of the University of Pristina and a B.Sc. from the Electrical Engineering, Department of Power Systems, of the same university.

Dr. Pula has published two university textbooks in electrical engineering and, since 1979, holds a teaching post at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Pristina, Cathedra for Production and Transmission of Electrical Energy where he is still employed as an associate professor.

Gazmend Pula has also been awarded the US and EU Democracy and Civil Society Award in 1998, and has been a Visiting Fellow in the Sudost Insitut (Institute for South-East Europe) in Munich and at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen). Since 1990, he has participated frequently in many international conferences, round tables and seminars dealing with the Kosovo and Yugoslav crisis.

Dr. Pula was born in Kosovo. He is married and has two children, Nita (19), and Leonat (15).