Ramadan Ramadani is a analyst at Skopje based Institute for Free Thinking“Nisma” from 2011 and is a regular columnist for the Macedonian-language weekly, Fokus, and the Albanian-language newspapers, Lobi and Lajm. He was a project manager at the Forum Center for Strategic Research and Documentation in Skopje from 2005-2007. He has written widely on religion and Islam and was a member of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia, the Macedonian Association of Journalists, the Association of Albanian Publishers, and is vice-president of JADRO–the Association of the Independent Cultural Scene and member board at Foundation Open Society–Macedonia. Ramadani graduated with a degree in theology in 1997 from the University of Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2010, he earned an MA and in 2014 PhD in history at the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia. Arianit Shehu Lectures at the Al Bayt University and Philadelphia University in Jordan and holds an honorary PhD from the University of Philadelphia. He currently works as NDI's Senior Country Director in Jordan. designing, managing and supporting successful and innovative election and democracy support projects with NDI for the past 15 years in more than 16 different countries in Central Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East and North Africa. Mr. Shehu has managed the Institute's civil society strengthening programs in Egypt, Kazakhstan and Kosovo. In addition, Mr. Shehu has served as a lead trainer and consultant for NDI programs in Bahrain, Lebanon, Macedonia, Turkey and the West Bank/Gaza. On behalf of the Institute, Mr. Shehu has coordinated international election observation missions to Albania, Egypt and Lebanon, and participated in international missions to Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Yemen.