Veli Kreci

Education

• May 2007 - Dec 2010: PhD in Political Sciences
  Faculty: Public Administration and Political Sciences
  South East European University, Tetovo
  Thesis: "Measuring Use of Policy Research in the Policymaking Process: Case Macedonia"
  
  
• Jan 2000 - Dec 2001: Master of Public and International Affairs
  Faculty: Graduate School for Public and International Affairs
  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
  Specialty: International Affairs
  Thesis: "THE DISINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAVIA AND ITS IMPACT ON U.S. POLICY IN THE BALKANS"
  
  
• Sep 1993 - Sep 1997: Bachelor of Art in International Relations
  Faculty: Political Sciences
  Istanbul University, Istanbul
  Specialty: International Relations
  Thesis: "N/R"
  
  

Publications

• Murphy, P and Kreci, Veli. Identifying quasi-legitimate actors in the policy making process: case Macedonia. In The 19th NISPAcee Annual Conference, pp. 270. NISPAcee PRESS, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2011. ISBN 978-80-89013-55-5. (Download)
  
  
• Veli Kreci and Bekim Ymeri. The Impact of Territorial Re-Organizational Policy Interventions in the Republic of Macedonia”, . In Local Government Studies. Volume 36: 2, pp. 271-290. Routledge, London, 5 / 2010. ISBN Print ISSN 0300-3930. (Download)
  
  
• Veli Kreci and Bekim Ymeri. Conceptualizing Territorial Reorganizationl Policy Interventions in the Republic of Macedonia. In Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe, pp. 129-159. LGI publications, Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 2010. ISBN 978-963-9719-16-3. (Download)
  
  
• Dunn, W.N., Miller, D.Y., Chandra, S., Kreci. V., and Saslawski, J.. Context and Self-Sustainability in Public Administration Education: The Macedonia Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management. In Public Administration and Public Policy Degree Programmes in Europe: The Road from Bologna, pp. 311-327. NISPAcee Publications, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2008. ISBN 978-80-89013-37-1. (Download)
  
  
• Murphy, J. P., Kreci, V., Saslawski, J., and Bocevski, I. Public Administration Education in Southeastern Europe: Accelerating the process. In Institutional Requirements and Problem Solving in the Public Administrations of the Enlarged European Union and Its Neighbors, pp. 280. NISPAcee, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2005. ISBN 80-89013-20-1. (Download)
  
  

Work Experience

• Dec 2010 - Present : Assistant Professor and Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies
  South East European Univerisity, Tetovo, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education
  Main responsibilities: Co-ordinate the development, implementation, management, and evaluation of graduate curricula within the Faculty; responsible for the daily management of academic and graduate student issues including enforcing academic regulations and quality assurance.
  
  
• Sep 2006 - Nov 2010: Assistant
  South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education and Research
  Main responsibilities: Courses teaching: Public Policy and Management Planning and Control in Public Sector Introduction to Public Administration Human Resources Management in Public Sector
  
  
• Jun 2008 - Jul 2008: Co-professor
  International Summer University in Macedonia, Ohrid, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Higher Education Project
  Main responsibilities: Course taught: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis
  
  
• Jul 2007 - Jul 2007: Co-professor
  International Summer University in Macedonia, Bitola, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Higher Education Project
  Main responsibilities: Course taught: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis
  
  
• Sep 2002 - Aug 2006: Assistant Director
  University of Pittsburgh, Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management Program in Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Education
  Main responsibilities: Represent the GCPPM on behalf of the Director and attend professional meetings as appropriate. Direct office personnel advise director on various projects; advise and counsel students related to their studies and policy papers.
  
  
• Sep 2003 - May 2006: Adjunct Faculty
  Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management, Skopje, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Higher Education Project
  Main responsibilities: Assisting in delivering Public Policy Analysis, a graduate level course, at the GCPPM. Holding recitation sessions prior to the actual session and helping students with their policy issue papers.
  
  
• Feb 2004 - Jul 2004: Academic Coordinator (part-time)
  Civic Education Project, Skopje, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: Higher Education Project
  Main responsibilities: Responsible for coordination of all activities pertaining to the Higher Education Studies in the Social Sciences (HESSS) project whose aim is curriculum reform and the introduction of the credit accumulation and transfer system in Macedonia, in line with
  
  
• Dec 2001 - Aug 2002: Research Assistant
  Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Pittsburgh, USA
  Type of business or sector: University
  Main responsibilities: Work directly with Project Investigator and the project team in developing a project grant on "Establishing Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management".