International Lawyer (LLB, LLM) | Country of Origin Information Specialist | Expert Witness
UK-based international lawyer, political scientist, and expert witness with over 20 years of experience in immigration, asylum, human rights, and Country of Origin Information (COI) research. Educated at the University of Prishtina and the University of Kent, with specialist expertise in International Law, International Relations, immigration law, and geopolitical risk assessment.
Author of more than 350 expert reports for UK Immigration and Asylum Tribunals, Extradition Courts, Crown Courts, and other judicial proceedings. Regularly instructed by solicitors, barristers, and courts to provide independent expert evidence on country conditions, political developments, human rights issues, and risk on return assessments.
Specialist areas of expertise include blood feuds, honour-based violence, human trafficking, modern slavery, forced labour, domestic abuse, organised crime, political persecution, human rights violations, torture, and inhuman or degrading treatment. Particular regional expertise in Western Balkans focusing on Albania and Kosovo.
Accredited by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) between 2005 and 2012 to provide regulated immigration advice and services in the United Kingdom. Member of the Academy of Experts since 2020 and recipient of the Best Southeast Europe Country of Origin Reports Specialist 2024 award from Acquisition International.
Former Director of a non-governmental organisation supporting immigration detainees and Trustee of a migrant support organisation for over 20 years. Guest lecturer at the Universities of Tirana, Prizren, and Gjilan. Author of a book on Kosovo’s independence, published in peer-reviewed academic journals, and frequently invited to provide expert commentary for international media, including the BBC and TRT World.
Known for delivering independent, objective, and thoroughly researched expert evidence in accordance with the duties and standards expected of expert witnesses before UK and US courts and tribunals.
Blood feuds, honour killings, human trafficking, modern slavery, forced labour and prostitution, domestic violence, narcotics organisations, human and political rights abuses, political violence, opposition and political persecution, as well as brutal and degrading treatment and torture. Risk on return, (non) protection by authorities, relocation.
Over 300 reports submitted, mostly on Albania but also Kosova and North Macedonia.
Can the European Union Resolve the Life-Cycle of the Conflict in Kosovo
Can Crimea Claim Secession and Accession to Russian Federation in Light of Kosovo’s Independence?