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Albana Shala
Program Coordinator, Press Now, Amsterdam
Albana Shala is responsible for the desk of Southern Caucasus and Kosovo at Press Now, a Dutch organization that supports independent media in regions of conflict and countries in transition.
Shala is specialised in radio projects, strategic planning and organisational development and takes special interest in analyzing the role of media in global and local processes. She has extensively advised and lobbied with national, regional and international organizations and agencies that focus on media issues and democratization such as UNESCO, SWISSPEACE, OSCE, ICCO, TNI, ECCP.
In the early 90s, Shala worked in book publishing and with United Nations in Tirana. She holds a MA in Development Studies from the Intitute of Social Studies, the Hague and a BA in English Language from Tirana University.