Mrs. Lejdi Dervishi is the Director of The Coordination Center for Countering Violent Extremism (The CVE Center) close to the Prime Minister’s Office, Tirana, Albania. She has attained three second-level Master’s degrees in the field of international and diplomatic relations, intelligence and security studies as well as European studies from three prestigious Italian and Albanian institutions. She has a vast professional knowledge on issues related to P/CVE issues, in particular with focus in the Western Balkans, NATO and MENA region. She is the author of a Magister’s degree thesis entitled “NATO’s Evolution: From Conventional to Hybrid Warfare” (UNISI, 2015). Since July 2020, she is an EU expert pool of the Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN).