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Flaka Surroi
Flaka Surroi (born 1963) is a Kosovo-Albanian journalist and author. She is the director general of the media company Koha Group, one of the leading media companies in Kosovo, since 2004.[1] She comes from the family of politician and diplomat Rexhai Surroi, and is a sibling of the politician Veton Surroi (who founded the aforementioned media company). Surroi regularly publishes op-eds in the Koha Ditore newspaper, and has published translations of English, Spanish and Serbian books.[2] Life and careerSurroi was born in 1963 in Pristina, Kosovo.[2] She finished her high school in Mexico, where her father was serving as an ambassador, and graduated at University of Pristina.[3] Before the Kosovo war of 1999, Surroi has worked in several international NGOs.[4] When her brother Veton Surroi formed the weekly magazine KOHA, she contributed as a film editor.[5] After the war, she led the Community Development Fund from 1999 to 2004, founded by the World Bank to support Kosovo in post-war recovery.[2][4] She worked for a short period of time as Secretary General of the Prime Minister of Kosovo.[3][6] After the re-entrance of her brother into politics in 2003, Surroi took the helm and sole ownership of the family enterprise Koha Group the following year.[5] She would own 100% of the company by 2006. Koha Group consists of a national TV broadcaster called Kohavision, the biggest daily newspaper in Kosovo Koha Ditore (Daily Time), a publishing company, and other enterprises. During her tenure as the head of Koha Ditore, the company has kept the leading position in Kosovo market.[7] AdvocacyIn 2013, she heavily supported protests against the Hashim Thaçi administration as being "thieves" and has promoted herself as an advocate of gender equality.[8] References
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