Nexhmedin Spahiu is a mathematician and political scientist from Mitrovica, Kosovo. He has taught at the University of Tirana, the University of Tetova, the University of Pristina, and the University of Hamburg, and has published nine books developing his theory of the Kosovar nation. He was a student leader at the University of Pristina in the late 1980s and chaired the Coordination Council of student organizations of the former Yugoslavia. In 1999, he founded the Radio and Television of Mitrovica and has since led the Assembly of NGOs of Kosovo, the umbrella body for Kosovar civil society.