{"id":3481,"date":"2020-11-13T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T11:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germin.org\/diaspora-flet\/?post_type=speaker_post&#038;p=3481"},"modified":"2020-11-14T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T10:32:00","slug":"mark-kosmo","status":"publish","type":"speaker_post","link":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/speaker_post\/mark-kosmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kosmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3481\" class=\"elementor elementor-3481\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c57982f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c57982f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e50093\" data-id=\"7e50093\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5296a61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5296a61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>Mark Kosmo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (chairman) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A belongs to the third generation Albanians in the U.S.A. where he has worked for the majority of his life. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and did his undergraduate degree in Economics and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. During his professional career, Mr. Kosmo has worked for more than 10 years at the World Bank in Washington D.C., as an environmental and energy economist during which time he also lived and worked extensively in Albania from 1992-1999. Mr. Kosmo has been active in the Albanian Diaspora for nearly three decades and currently serves as the Chair and Founder of the Global Albanians Foundation (GAF) and Chair of Germin both of which he has chaired since the end of 2018.  He is also the Chair and Founder of the Massachusetts Albanian American Society \u201cBesa\u201d (MAASBESA) which was founded in 2006 in Boston.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3482,"template":"","tax_speakers":[18],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_post\/3481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker_post"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_post\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax_speakers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporaflet.germin.org\/2020\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax_speakers?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}