Liri Berisha Explained

Liri Berisha
Birth Date:5 July 1948
Birth Place:Tirana, Albania
Birthname:Slobodanka Ramaj
Office:First Lady of Albania
Term Label:In role
Term Start:9 April 1992
Term End:24 July 1997
President:Sali Berisha
Predecessor:Semiramis Xhuvani (1986)
Successor:Lidra Meidani
Office1:Spouse of the Prime Minister of Albania
Term Label1:In role
Term Start1:11 September 2005
Term End1:15 September 2013
Primeminister1:Sali Berisha
Predecessor1:Xhoana Nano
Successor1:Linda Rama
Nationality:Albanian
Alma Mater:University of Tirana
Children:2

Liri Berisha (; born 5 July 1949) is an Albanian pediatrician and president of the Albanian Children Foundation, and also a UNICEF ambassador.

She is the wife of Sali Berisha, the former President and Prime Minister of Albania, with whom she has two children, daughter Argita and son Shkëlzen.

Early life and career

Liri Berisha was born Slobodanka Ramaj. She is the daughter of Rexhep Ramaj Balidemaj, an ethnic Albanian from Martinovići near Plav, at the time part of Yugoslavia (now Montenegro), and Milica Bulatović, a Montenegrin woman. After the Yugoslav–Albanian split in 1948, her name was changed by the government to Liri Ramaj.

In 2008, Berisha founded the Mother Teresa Cultural Foundation.[1] In 2009, the Women's Information Network named Berisha "Woman of the Year".[2]

Berisha joined Autism Speaks in 2011 in celebrating the opening of a new centre for autistic children in Albania, calling the centre a way to improve the lives of children with autism there.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Honoring the First Lady of Albania, Dr. Liri Berisha | Capitol Words . 2015-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151124223455/http://capitolwords.org/date/2010/04/27/E683-3_honoring-the-first-lady-of-albania-dr-liri-berisha/ . 2015-11-24 . dead .
  2. Web site: Honoring The First Lady Of Albania, Dr. Liri Berisha. Capitol Words. 2015-11-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20151124223455/http://capitolwords.org/date/2010/04/27/E683-3_honoring-the-first-lady-of-albania-dr-liri-berisha/. 2015-11-24. dead.
  3. Web site: First Lady of Albania Attends Opening of New Autism Support Center in Tirana. Autism Speaks. 2011-11-30. 2016-12-18.