Hashim Thaci
Date of Birth: 24/04/1968
Occupation: Politician
Biography: Thaci is the Prime Minister of Republic of Kosovo, the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK), and former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

Thaci was born in Srbica, SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Pristina. During his university years, he was an Albanian student leader and the first student president of the parallel Albanian University of Pristina that broke off in 1989 (and organized in the early 1990s) from the official University due to Kosovo Albanians' protest of Slobodan Milosevic's new imposed status of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

By 1993, Thaci joined the Albanian political emigre group in Switzerland, where he also pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Zurich in the departments of history and international relations. There he became one of the founders of the People's Movement of Kosovo (LPK)