Gentiana Gola is a Democracy Assessment Adviser for Europe at International IDEA. Her work focuses on research and analysis, communication, outreach and coordination in support of the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) programme, including the newly launched platform, the Democracy Tracker.

Before joining International IDEA, Gentiana was a National Programme Officer at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Democratization Department. At the OSCE, she was engaged in representative participation work, focusing on women, youth and non-majority communities. She was also part of civil society, where she managed and coordinated projects at the Kosovar Gender Studies Center and Balkans Policy Research Group. Previously, she worked in the public sector at the Ministry for European Integration in Kosovo. Gentiana is a Swedish Institute scholar with an MSc in Political Science from Gothenburg University.