Arben Imami Explained

Arben Imami
Office:Member of the Albanian parliament
Term Start:1991
Term End:2017
Office2:32nd Defence Minister of Albania
Term Start2:17 September 2009
Term End2:15 September 2013
Primeminister2:Sali Berisha
Predecessor2:Gazmend Oketa
Successor2:Mimi Kodheli
Party:Democratic Party
Otherparty:Democratic Alliance Party (1996-2005)
Birth Date:1958 1, df=y
Birth Place:Tirana, People's Republic of Albania (now Albania)
Birthname:Arben Fahri Imami
Nationality:Albanian
Residence:Tirana, Albania
Alma Mater:Academy of Arts of Tirana
Signature:Arben Imami (nënshkrim).svg

Arben Fahri Imami (born 21 January 1958) is an Albanian politician and former actor. He served as the minister of defense between 2009 and 2013.[1]

Biography

Imami was born in Tirana, and attended the High Institute of Arts of Tirana between 1977 and 1981. Later he was a professor at the Academy of Arts of Tirana. He is one of the founders of the Democratic Party of Albania in 1990, and has been elected a Member of Parliament in five legislatures.

Political posts Imami has held include minister of legislative reform and parliament relations from 1997 to 1999, minister of justice from 2000 to 2001, minister of local government and decentralization from 2000 to February 2002, and from 2005 to 2009 he was the chief of cabinet of the prime minister.

During 1999 and 2000, he had a fellowship at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.[2]

He has acted in three films, Face to Face (1979) "Në çdo stinë" (1980) and (Vajzat me kordele te kuqe) Te shoh ne sy (1986)

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Notes and References

  1. News: New Albanian defence minister appointed. 15 February 2014. IHS Jane's Defence Weekly. 16 September 2013. Nicholas de Larrinaga. London.
  2. Web site: The GLS Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 2 - Class of 2000 . 2006 . Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service . 16 November 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080517112555/http://www3.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/gls/newsletters/GLS_Newsletter06winter.pdf . 17 May 2008 .