Vlora Spanca, Auditor General of the Republic of Kosovo
BACKGROUND
Vlora Spanca is the Auditor General of the Republic of Kosovo. She has been elected by the Assembly of Kosovo on 12 August 2021 upon proposal of the President of the Republic of Kosovo.
Before being elected for this position, she served as the Assistant Auditor General in the National Audit Office since August 2017.
During such period, she has been in charge of the Division of a number of audit departments, i.e. Performance Audit Department, IT Audit Department and Public Procurement Department. In addition, she has been in charge of the financial audit of projects funded by donors such as the World Bank and the Swedish Agency for Development.
During 2020-2021, she has served as the Coordinator of the Twinning Projects “Further strengthening of the National Audit Impact” funded by the European Union and implemented by the Polish Supreme Audit Institutions. Whilst during the 2017-2019 period, Spanca served as Coordinator of the Project on Developing Audit Capacities in Public Procurement, funded by the World Bank.
From 2009 until 2016, Spanca was appointed as Head of Regularity Audit Department, covering the Ministries and Independent Institutions, including the audit of the annual financial statements of the Budget of Kosovo for the year 2015-2016.
Before being hired in the National Audit Office in 2007, Spanca worked for four years in the UN Mission in Kosovo in the Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General. She was in charge of the administrative support to the Liaison Offices with the Kosovo Protection Corps, the Kosovo’s Interim Administration Structure, and the Directorate for Rural Affairs.
Spanca is a graduate of the Economic Faculty of the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”. She is a Certified Public Sector Auditor and has partaken in numerous professional trainings in the areas of accounting, public administration, leadership, and public procurement.
She has also attended many international conferences and seminars under various roles and responsibilities.
