Agon Maliqi is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. He is also an independent consultant and media writer on topics related to Balkans’ security, democracy, and information space. Maliqi is also a member of the Western Balkans 6 Strategy Group of the Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Stiftung, as well as a founding member of the Kosovo Civic Alternative, a civil society platform fostering positive ethnic relations in Maliqi’s native country.

Maliqi had previously spent most of the past decade in various leading functions at Sbunker, a Pristina-based democracy think tank and analytical media platform, which he co-founded in 2015. Since 2013, he has also worked as a consultant for a wide range of international organizations, including the European Union, the World Bank, the International Republican Institute, and the National Democratic Institute. He has also written and commented extensively on his areas of expertise for a wide range of local, regional, and international media.

In 2019, Maliqi was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC. In 2021, he was also a Draper-Hills Summer fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

In 2012, Maliqi obtained an MA in international development policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Previously, in 2006, he graduated with a degree in political science and international relations, and a double major in European studies, at the American University in Bulgaria.  

Maliqi is fluent in his native Albanian, as well as in English and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, or the BCMS languages. He is based in Tirana, Albania.