Agon Maliqi is a political analyst and media writer from Kosovo, based in Tirana, Albania. He was the co-founder and until recently the Chairman of the Board of Sbunker – an Albanian-language commentary and analysis blog as well as think tank working on democracy and security issues in the Western Balkans.

Mr. Maliqi currently works as an independent analyst and consultant on security, conflict and democratization issues in the Balkans and South Caucasus. Previously, Mr. Maliqi was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). He graduated in Political Science and European Studies from the American University in Bulgaria in 2006, and obtained a Master’s Degree in International Development Policy from Duke University (USA) in 2012. Agon Maliqi is a member of the Western Balkans Strategy Group of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.