Ana Mullanji is the Executive Director and one of the funders of Beyond Barriers Association since 2004. Ms Mullanji holds a BA in Social Sciences and an MSc in European Project Management (Firenze-IT), alumna of numerous Council of Europe youth work and youth policy programmes and an expert with over 17 years of experience in the CSO sector and youth work. Ana is a freelance trainer in non-formal education and human rights, SALTO-SEE Accreditor, Expert Consultant and Senior Trainer in Youth@work Strategic Partnership on Employment and Entrepreneurship which is leaded by 11 National Agency of EU and 5 SALTO-s, financed from the European Commission.

Ana specialise in fields such as, volunteering infrastructure, culture diversity, intercultural learning, employability skills and youth entrepreneurship, active citizenship and active youth participation, non-formal learning and youth policy development. For several years she is also directing the work of BBA as Contact Point Office for Erasmus+ and ESC programmes in Albania, while offering support, information and training to all interested beneficiaries in the country.