Early Life and Career
Behgjet Pacolli is the son of Isa and Nazmije. He is Kosovar-Albanian by ethnicity but hasSwiss citizenship as well. In the 1970s, he emigrated to Hamburg, West Germany where he achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, specializing in Marketing and Management. In 1974, he completed his military service in Yugoslav army and returned to Kosovo. In 1976, Pacolli moved to Switzerland where he became one of the top managers of Inter plastic, an engineering and trading company dealing in chemicals and plastics and cooperating with the countries of the Soviet bloc.
In 1990, he founded Mabetex Project Management, a construction company based in Lugano, Switzerland, which has developed into a large business group now called the Mabetex Group, with interests in insurance, media, construction, etc.
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