Mimoza Kusari-Lila is currently serving as the Chairwoman of the Liberal Democratic Political Party in Kosovo – Alternativa. She was the first and only female mayor (of one of the largest cities, Gjakova) to ever be elected in Kosovo, a position which she held from December 2013 to July 2017.
Prior to her political career, Kusari-Lila worked on development projects with the World Bank in Kosovo. She was also a Business Consultant for a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project and was later appointed as an Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Kosovo. This was a position she held for over three years, making AmCham Kosovo one of the most reputable business organisations in the country.
Kusari-Lila holds an MBA from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA where she received the State Department’s Ron Brown Scholarship and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Prishtina.
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) was formed on 1 January, 1992, by a decree issued by the late Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum to merge Dubai Electricity Company and Dubai Water Department, which had been operating independently before then. Both organisations were established by the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum in 1959. Dubai Government fully supported the Electricity Company and the Water Department to provide Dubai’s citizens and residents with a continuous and reliable supply of electricity and water. Since then, DEWA has made considerable achievements, to be ranked as one of the best utilities in the world. DEWA provides services today to more than 900,000 customers with a happiness rate that reached 95% in 2018.
The UAE, represented by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has maintained its first global ranking, for the third consecutive year, with scores of 100% in all Getting Electricity indicators in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 report. The report measures the ease of doing business in 190 economies around the world. DEWA achieved competitive results in global benchmarking, surpassing the private sector and major European and American utilities in efficiency and reliability. DEWA raised the efficiency of its energy production by using the latest technologies and adopting technological innovations, surpassing European and American utilities, by reducing losses from electricity transmission and distribution networks to 3.3% compared to 6–7% in the US and Europe. DEWA also achieved the lowest customer minutes lost per year (CML) in the world of 2.39 CML compared to 15 minutes in Europe and was also able to reduce water network losses to 6.5% in 2018 compared to 15% in North America, which is one of the best results in the world.
