Arben Fetai is an experienced professional in the area of public politics and European integrations, with an extensive international career.  He was born on 11 December 1980 in Kumanovo and owns double citizenship:  of the Republic of North Macedonia and of the Kingdom of Belgium. 

Fetai began his higher education in Belgium, where he studied political science at the University of Liège from 1999 to 2001. Afterwards, he continued his education at the Free University in Brussels where he obtained a diploma on political science and international relations (2001-2003).  In the period 2003-2006 Arben specialised in the area of European studies at the Institute for European Studies in Belgium. 

His professional career started in 2004 when he started working as a junior expert on a project financed by the EU for support of the Assembly of Kosovo.  In the period 2006-2008 Fetai was a liaison office on the project for building capacities for European integrations in the office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo. From 2010 to 2018, he worked as a senior advisor for EU policy on projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In recent years, Fetai has worked as a global advocacy coordinator at Aidsfonds in Brussels and as executive director of the Arben Xhaferi Institute for Public Policy in Skopje.

In addition to the Albanian language, he speaks Macedonian, French, English and Dutch