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Prof. Asoc. Dr. Idriz Kovaçi
Vice Dean for Cooperation with Industry, Practical Work, Technology, and Digitalization
Kovaçi is Vice-Dean for Co-operation with Industry, Practical Work, Technology and Digitalisation in the Faculty of Tourism and Environment at the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, where he has been a professor since 2018.
He completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Prishtina. He completed his Doctorate at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia in 2008 in Economic Sciences and Fiscal Policy. His dissertation was titled “Implications of Public Revenues on Investments in the Republic of Macedonia”.
From 1999-2001, he worked as an administrator and consultant in the Ministry of Local Self-Government, in the Office for the Development of Underdeveloped Regions in Skopje, North Macedonia. From 2001-2006, he was an adviser in the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Macedonia and head of the Sector of the Regional Unit in Skopje. In 2006, he worked as the Deputy Head of the Sector for Local Economic Development in Skopje, in the fields of tourism and hospitality.
In addition to his academic engagement at the State University of Tetova, he has also worked at several other universities in North Macedonia and Kosovo. From 2008-2017, he worked as an Extraordinary Professor at the American University of Europe in Skopje. He was a Visiting Professor at AAB College in Prishtina from 2009-2010, at Vision for Education College in Ferizaj from 2011-2015, at Gjilani College in Gjilan from 2012-2014; at the European College of Kosovo in Prishtina from 2014-2015 and at the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj from 2014-2016. He was a full professor at Arbëri College in Gjilan from 2017-2018.
He is active in academic research as the author of several important books and monographs in the field of tourism, and has presented numerous papers at national, regional and international conferences and has published numerous articles in scientific journals indexed on prestigious platforms such as Scopus and Web of Science. His books and monographs are; Monetary Economics I (2012), Monetary Economics II (2013), Management in Tourism – Theoretical Managerial Approach (2017), Monetary Analysis, Theoretical and Practical Approach to the Monetary Aspects of an Economy (2022), Tourism Sustainable (2022) and Management and Monetary Policy (2024).
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