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Gjergji Vurmo

Senior Researcher (MA)

Address: Shenasi Dishnica, Nd. 35, H. 1, 1017, Tirana, Albania

Gjergji Vurmo is IDM’s Senior Researcher on governance, anticorruption and EU enlargement. He is author of several IDM studies and reports related to civil society development, governance and anti-corruption, EU accession process, regional cooperation in the WBs and security issues such as radicalism and violent extremism.

Mr. Vurmo has served as Steering Board member of various networks of research institutes in the SEE region (PASOS, BCSDN) and is a contributor for several policy research bodies such as Center for European Policy Studies – CEPS Brussels, Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group – BiEPAGOnThinkTanks etc. He has monitored and reported on Albania for well-known global reports such as the Open Government partnership (2013-2018), USAID CSO’s Sustainability Index (2010-2013), Open Parliaments 2012 report, and Freedom House’s Nations in Transit (2018 – 2020). Prior to working with IDM, Mr. Vurmo has been engaged with various think tanks in the WB region for over seven years.

Gjergji studied law at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and obtained his MA degree on European studies at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Languages: Albanian (native); English and Macedonian (C2, fluent); French and Italian (B2); Serbian & Croatian (B1)

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