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Anuela Ristani
Anuela Ristani is the Deputy Mayor of Tirana for Foreign Relations. She was born in Tirana on October 13, 1982.
She began her high school studies at Ismail Qemali High School in Tirana and completed her studies in Minnesota, United States.
Ristani holds a degree in Business Administration and European Studies from American University in Bulgaria and holds a Masters in Business Administration and Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. In 2002, together with other Albanian students studying abroad, she established the Albanian Students' Network in the World, a network targeting Albanian youth who wanted to contribute to their country after returning home or away.
Her professional experience has been primarily related to business development for newly established international companies in Albania and then focused on communication and marketing strategies.
In 2008-2010, as an expert at the World Bank, she led the project for reforming and modernizing the financial sector in Albania, gaining experience in policymaking and drafting legislation.
Anuela Ristani joined the public administration in 2014 as General Directorof the National Youth Service, where she worked for the establishment of the RYCO (Regional Youth Cooperation Office) and opened the first youth centers in Albania's major cities.
She was appointed to the position of Director of the Cabinet of the Mayor of Tirana after the 2015 local elections, a position she held for four years of the first term of Mayor Veliaj.
Keti Luarasi
Deputy Mayor of Tirana Municipality
Mrs. Luarasi was born in Tirana and holds the position of Deputy Mayor since October 2021. She joined the Municipality of Tirana in 2015 after the first winning mandate of Mayor Veliaj as the Strategic Planning and HR General Director. In 2019, during the second mandate of Mayor Veliaj, she was promoted to the position of Chief of Staff at the Mayor’s Cabinet, where she pursued the implementation of projects and tasks within each department by creating and maintaining cross–departmental relationships, ensuring success.
Ms. Luarasi is highly motivated and experienced, and has brought to the mayoral team her expert proficiency in designing and managing all operating aspects of people management. Her know-how for startups and organizations, including strategic planning, organizing, standard operating procedures, staffing, leadership, and monitoring and evaluating activities in a dynamic, fast paced environment, both in private and civil society sector, lay at the core of her work at the Municipality of Tirana.
Prior to joining the Municipality of Tirana, Mrs. Luarasi worked as the General Director of Standards and People Management on the first Albanian mobile telecommunications company, PLUS Communication (2009-2015). At this position, Mrs. Luarasi played a key role at gathering around PLUS a highly professional and competitive workforce: she raised and developed a full-range corporative structure, standards and procedures, while recruiting more than 1000 employees.
Mrs. Luarasi has also leaded the People and Change department at KPMG Albania (2006-2009), offering consultancy and advisory services on a variety of different issues for a number of international and national clients.
During the period of 2000-2006 she has worked on the civil society sector at the Open Society Foundation for Albania as Program Coordinator and HR Manager.
Her previous experience includes academic commitment as well, being a lecturer at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Philology for 4 years. Mrs. Luarasi brings a vast experience and expertise dealing with functions and standardization of Human Capital and policy-creation and evaluation on a multi-level aspect of businesses, NGOs and public administration structures.
Mrs. Luarasi holds a Bachelor degree with Honors on Literature and Linguistics from the University of Tirana (1999). She also obtained a Master of Science degree in Organizational Behavior, from the University of London, UK, in 2005.
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