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.
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, Russian and Serbo-Croat.