The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has appointed Përparim Kryeziu, Government Spokesman. Përparim Kryeziu graduated with honors from the New University of Lisbon (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), where he studied Sociology of Economics and Organization. He was a fellow of the SIGMA Agile program, funded by the European Commission. According to a Government announcement, he was also a pioneer fellow of the US Department of State-funded YES (Youth Exchange and Study) exchange program, through which he attended a year of high school in Vermont, USA. For nearly three years he has been a civil society activist, engaged as a research assistant at the Kosovo Center for Security Studies and a researcher in the Group for Legal and Political Studies.