Selim Selimi started his career at
OSCE,
Kosovo Police School in March 2000. He held various positions in Police Field Training Office,
Criminal Investigation Department and was appointed Chief of
Curriculum Development Section. Selimi has also worked for OSCE Mission in Kosovo's Implementation Team at the Police Inspectorate from 2006 to 2008 as a
Criminal Code and
Criminal Procedure Code Expert. Selimi worked for the
U.S. Department of Justice -
ICITAP as a Rule of Law Advisor, based in the office of Kosovo Chief State Prosecutor. For
UNDP Selimi worked in
Geneva,
Switzerland for Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and in
Pristina, Kosovo as a
Project Manager for
Parliamentary Affairs Selimi was appointed a Rule of Law Advisor to the 4th
President of Kosovo,
Atifete Jahjaga in 2012. He was the Coordinator of The National
Anti-Corruption Council that was established by the
President of Kosovo, to increase cooperation and coordination among the Kosovo institutions in the forefront of the fight against
corruption. In 2013 Selimi was appointed Special Envoy to
Initiative for RECOM, a regional commission for the establishment of facts about
war crimes and other serious violations of
human rights committed in the former
Yugoslavia. Selim Selimi was appointed the Rule of Law Advisor to
Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in 2018. He was also the Coordinator of the High Level Council on Rule of Law, Chaired by the Prime Minister. In 2019 he assumed the duties of the
Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister. In this position he was a member of the Kosovo Security Council and head of the technical dialogue between
Kosovo and
Serbia. Selim Selimi served as
Minister of Justice of the
Republic of Kosovo from 3 June 2020 to 22 March 2021. During his tenure as the Minister of Justice he concluded the Functional Review of the Kosovo
Rule of Law System and presented to the Parliament various pieces of legislation, among others, the
Civil Code of Kosovo, Draft Law on the
Anti-Corruption Agency, Draft Law on
Criminal Procedure, Draft Law on Establishing the
Commercial Court of Kosovo, Draft Law on the Disciplinary Responsibility of
Judges and
Prosecutors, Draft Law on Execution of Criminal Sanctions, Draft Law on
Correctional Service, etc. Selimi formed the Inclusive Working Group that produced the first document for the process of
Vetting of Judges and Prosecutors. During Minister's Selimi tenure in coordination with
USAID, Kosovo was for the first time included in the “
World Justice Project Rule of Law Index”, which ranked Kosovo first in the
Western Balkans and second in the
Eastern Europe and
Central Asia region for respecting the rule of law in 2020 and 2021. Minister Selimi was part of the delegation led by Kosovo Prime Minister
Avdullah Hoti that negotiated and signed the
Kosovo and Serbia Economic Normalization agreements on September 4, 2020, at the
Oval Office of the
White House in the presence of
Donald Trump,
President of the United States. The deal encompassed freer transit, including by rail and road, while both parties agreed to work with the
Export–Import Bank of the United States and the
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and to join the
Mini Schengen Zone. The agreement also included mutual recognition
between Israel and Kosovo. After serving as Minister, he continued working as an Attorney at Law in
Prishtina,
Kosovo. Selim Selimi also worked as Rule of Law Advisor for a
US State Department -
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) funded project in
East Africa implemented by
UNOPS, based in
Port Louis,
Mauritius. The project is designed to provide advice and expertise to
INL East Africa
Transnational Organized Crime program (EA - TOC) and national-level institutions on rule of law matters and assist the
law enforcements and
prosecutions offices of Western
Indian Ocean Islands of
Mauritius,
Seychelles,
Madagascar and
Comoros with advice and training to improve the interdiction, investigation, and prosecution of crimes. ==References==