Date of birth: 12.05.1974
 

Place of birth: Tirana - Albania

Education:

1988-1992: Foreign Languages School “English Language and Literature”.

1992-1997: Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russian Federation.
 

1997-1998: George Marshall Centre for Strategic Studies, Germany.
 

1998-1999: NATO Defense Colleague, Italy.

Activity:

2023 – Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the UAE

2018 – 2023: Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to Montenegro.

2014 - 2018: Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the Kingdom of Spain.       

2013 - 2014: Chief of State Protocolof the Republic of Albania.

2010 - 2013: Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the State of Qatar.
 

2009 - 2010: Chief of State Protocolof the Republic of Albania.

2006 – 2009: Councelor and Charge d’Affair of the Republic of Albania to Spain.
 

2004 – 2006: Sceurity Issues Dpt. MoFA

2001 - 2003: Second Secretary – Albanian Permanent Mission to the OSCE-Vienna.

1997 - 2001: Security Issues Dpt. MoFA.
 

Ambassador Ridi Kurtezi speaks fluently English, Russianand Serbo-Croat.

He is married to Ina Kurteziand they are both parents of Maja and Sven.