Prof. Ass. Dr. Ketrina Çabiri Mijo completed her Doctoral studies on Corruption and Decision-making in public procurement at the European University of Tirana (UET), supported by a research fellowship at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, UK (Civil Society Scholarship Award), and another fellowship at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria (Sigma Agile). Ketrina holds a Master's degree in European Policies from the University of Sussex, UK (OSI-Chevening). She completed her Bachelor's studies in Political Science at the University of Tirana.

Ketrina has been a research Fellow at TRAIN programme ‘Fostering Policy Dialogue in the Western Balkans’ lead by German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). She teaches courses such as "Evaluation of Public Policy," "Introduction to Public Administration," and "Project Management and Evaluation" in the Bachelor's and Master's programs at the European University of Tirana. Since 2022, she has been a guest lecturer at FH Joanneum University in Graz, where she teaches "Project Design and Management". Previously she has worked as an expert of European Research Programs in the Agency for Research, Technology and Innovation in the Council of Ministers in Albania.

Since 2011, Ketrina has been engaged as a project manager at the Office for Projects and Internationalization at UET and is currently the Head of this office. She has extensive experience in project evaluation as well as project design and management in programs such as ERASMUS, IPA CBC/Interreg MED/Balkan Med, Jean Monnet, Horizon, and other national and international donors such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, RCC, World Bank, British Council, Open Society Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, OSCE, UN Women, Global Research Competition, etc.

Ketrina has published in national and international journals and publishing houses such as Bentham Science Publishers, Kluwer Law International, Oxford University Press, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (Emerald Publishing), among others, as a sole author and co-author. She is also a member of the scientific committees of several international conferences.