Who Is Adea Pirdeni, New Minister Proposed by PM
Adea Pirdeni has been proposed by Prime Minister Edi Rama to head the Ministry of State for Public Administration and Anti-corruption. Her name has been sent to the President of the Republic, Bajram Begaj for decree.
We remind you that Adea Pirdeni has held the position of Deputy Minister of Justice for the last three years and, as Rama says, she has stood out with her leadership and professionalism in the role of Deputy Chief Negotiator with the European Union, as well as in covering the major chapter of the Court of Fundamental Rights.
Adea Pirdeni was born in Tirana on October 1, 1983. She completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, from which she also holds a Master's degree in Public Law.
In 2014 he obtained the title of Magister Juris (MJur) with excellent results from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and since 2016 he holds the title of "Doctor in Legal Sciences" from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tirana. She has conducted study visits as part of exchange programs at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) and at the University of Kansas (USA). Since 2008, Mrs. Pirdeni works as a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana in the disciplines of Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, EU Law and Administrative Law.
Her main research areas are the constitutional aspects of good governance and human rights, European integration, as well as legal reform, for the drafting and implementation of which she has contributed as an Expert of the Technical Secretariat at the High Level Expert Group.
In the wake of her professional experiences, Pirdeni has served over the years as an external trainer at the School of Magistrates, the School of Advocacy of Albania and the Albanian School of Public Administration.
Pirdeni has a wide portfolio of engagement as a legal expert in a number of projects implemented by local institutes and organizations, as well as international partners, with a focus on assisting in improving the performance and increasing the capacities of central institutions of public administration, strengthening the capacity for the investigation and prosecution of corruption in Albania and neighbouring countries in the region, support for the preparation of the approximation of legislation for Chapter 23 of the EU Acquis in the framework of the European integration of Albania and the monitoring of the implementation of the Justice Reform in Albania.
From September 2020, Adea Pirdeni serves as the Deputy Minister of Justice of Albania, covering in her portfolio mainly issues of European integration as part of the Negotiating Group for the Accession of the Republic of Albania to the EU for Chapter 23 on "Judiciary & Human Rights", anti-corruption and strategic framework in the field of justice.