Shar Kurtishi
2024-2025 Collaborative on Global Children's Issues
Shar is a public policy and public finance specialist with 20 years of experience in designing, administering, and managing public financial management (PFM) systems, with a decade of direct involvement in child rights, child protection, social protection, and related strategies, policies, and programs. He is a 2024-2025 collaborative fellow with the Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children's Issues.
- Core expertise includes the analysis of human development and its interface with PFM, budget preparation, medium-term expenditure planning, and fiscal and administrative decentralization.
- Extensive international experience, having worked in countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia, including Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and more.
- Provided effective management for programs, policies, and strategies on PFM, designed financial and planning toolkits for decision-making, developed intergovernmental financing mechanisms, and authored strategies for organizations such as UNICEF, USAID, the World Bank, the U.K. Department for International Development, the European Commission, and the Luxembourg Development Agency.
- Specializes in the relationship between social services and PFM systems, with a focus on education, health, social care, and child protection.
- Strong IT background in developing, deploying, and evaluating management information systems (MIS).
- Fluent in Albanian, English, Serbian, and German.
- Works globally for UNICEF and serves as a senior associate with Maestral International.