Flaka Surroi

Flaka Surroi (born 1964) is a notable Kosovo-Albanian publisher. She comes from the family of Kosovo politician and diplomat Rexhai Surroi, and is a sibling of Veton Surroi, a Kosovan politician. She finished her high school in Mexico, where her father was serving as an ambassador, and graduated at University of Pristina.

Before the Kosovo war of 1999, Surroi has worked in several international NGOs, while after the war she led a local foundation.^[1] She worked for a short period of time as Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, but after the re-entrance of her brother Veton Surroi into politics in 2003, Flaka Surroi took the helm and sole ownership, of the family enterprise Koha Group, that consists of a national TV broadcaster called Kohavision, the biggest daily newspaper in Kosovo Koha Ditore (Daily Time), Printing press, an Internet Service Provider Koha Net and a winery business. She has recently (2013) heavily supported^[2] protests against the Government of Kosovo as being "thieves" and has promoted herself as an advocate of gender equality.

During her tenure as the head of Koha Ditore, the company has kept the leading position in Kosovo market.^[3]

References

1. "Kosovo case study" (PDF). 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
2. Habemus Populus Archived 14 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, newspaper editorial Koha Ditore, 17 March 2013
3. "Kosovo poll shows Koha Ditore most read newspaper, RTK most watched TV". BBC Monitoring International Reports. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2010.