Ambassador Adrian Neritani
Adrian served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in New York (concurrently serving as non-resident Ambassador to Cuba). After completing his term as Ambassador to the UN, he joined the President of the UN General Assembly as his Legal Counsel.
Career
Later on, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Amb. Neritani to serve as Political Director of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), a UN Security Council mandated body to identify perpetrators responsible in the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Amb. Neritani started his diplomatic career in 1991, when he became in charge of the United States affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania. He remained with the Foreign Service until 1999, serving as Regional Officer in charge of China and the Far East, and later on as First Secretary/DCM and Charge d’Affaires a.i. at the Albanian Embassy in Beijing, China. At the beginning of his career Adrian was a Lecturer at the University of Shkodra, Albania, and most recently he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Currently, Amb. Neritani is an Attorney and Counsellor at Law in New York City, focusing his practice in areas of international law and business transactions. During the course of his career, he worked as an attorney in private practice in Chicago. Adrian serves as a pro bono legal adviser of the UN Women for Peace Association, a New York based not for profit organization committed to end violence against women and girls around the world. He is also a board member of the International Association of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in New York.
He holds Bachelor Degrees in Political Science and Law from the University of Tirana, a Master’s Degree in Diplomacy from the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta, and a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Business and Trade Law from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, USA. He is a member of the New York Bar.