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Issue Interview
Court of Auditors, as well with Supreme Audit
Institutions of EU Countries. In regularly basis
we sent our auditors in exchanges programs,
conferences, trainings, internships and mas-
ter’s degrees in above mentioned institutions.
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What is the nature of your supreme audit
institution relation with the Parliament?
- KNAO on behalf of the Assembly of the Re-
public of Kosovo controls the expenditures of
public money, assists the Assembly to hold ac-
countable government and public institutions
on how they spend public money and helps
those in charge of providing public services to
improve their performance in delivering servic-
es at the central and local level. The Assembly
of Kosovo upon the proposal of the President
Besnik Osmani
Official Address:
St. Musine Kokollari 16, 10000
Prishtina, Kosovo
Private address:
Ulpiana, E32, H1/6, Imzot
Nikprela, Prishtina, Kosovo
besnik.osmani@
oagks.org
Language literacy: Albanian, English and
Serbian Language
Professional Background
Master of Science in Public Policy and
Public Administration (Rochester Institute of
Technology, USA, 2011)
Graduated economist (Faculty of Economics,
Pristina, Kosovo, 1996),
International Certified Public Administration
Trainer (Vienna Institute, Austria, 2004)
Working experience
March 30: Auditor General, National Audit Office
16 July 2005 - 30 March 2016, Secretary
General, Ministry of Local Government
Administration (re-elected 4 times)
20 October, 2005 – 19 October, 2007, Non-
executive Director of the Publicly Owned
Enterprise “Iber Lepenci”, Kosovo Trust Agency
20 February 2004 - 15 July 2005, Director of
the Department for International Economic
Cooperation, Ministry of Finance and Economy
15 October 2000 - 19 February 2004, Director
of Central Administration, Central Fiscal
Authority,
10 February 2000 - 14 October 2000, Head of
Public Revenue Division, Treasury of Kosovo
1st of September 1996 – 9th of February, 2000,
Teacher, Secondary School of Economics,
Prishtina
National Coordinator of Operational Structures
for Cross-Border Cooperation with Neighboring
Countries (January 2009- March 2016)
Member of the Technical Group within the
Prishtina - Belgrade dialogue (April 2013 -
March 2016)
Member of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on
Decentralization (June 2008 - September 2012)
Member of the Steering Board for Public
Administration Reform (February 2008 - March
2014)
Deputy Chairperson of the National Board for
the Reintegration of Repatriated Persons (2010
- 2014)
Member of the Expert Group at the Vienna talks
(2005-2007)
Member of the European Council on Minority
Issues / ECMI (2001-2004)
Public Administration Expert in SIGMA (2003-
2004)
of the Republic of Kosovo with a majority of
vote of all its members appoints the Auditor
General for a term of five years.
The Auditor General, as the Head of the Na-
tional Audit Office, is accountable before the
Assembly for performing the duties and pow-
ers set forth by the Constitution, the Law,
secondary legislation and internationally rec-
ognized public sector auditing standards. He
provide to the Assembly an Annual Perfor-
mance Report on the activities of the National
Audit Office. He annually present the Annual
Audit Report in the Plenary Session of the As-
sembly
The Assembly of Kosovo appoint an inter-
nationally recognised independent external
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