Ardjana Shehi Kalo
Lawyer and Managing Partner of AK Partners Legal & Consulting
Ardjana Shehi Kalo has over 30 years professional experience, mainly as a practicing lawyer in Albania. Ardjana is Managing Partner of AK Partners Legal & Consulting. She has acted as a lawyer, legal consultant and trainer for a number of international organizations (for example, NGOs and development agencies), as well as foreign embassies, international consulting groups, Fortune listed companies and academic institutions.
For many years Ardjana has been a lecturer and trainer at the School of Magistrates in Albania. She has authored many legal articles which have been published in domestic and foreign publications and has co-authored three legal books. For several years Ardjana was an IFLR1000 Highly Regarded Lawyer and the Designated Legal Counsel of the Austrian Embassy in Tirana.
Throughout her professional career Ardjana has been involved in gender matters; she has advocated for legal rights for women and in particular for their economic empowerment. To this end she has also served as a board member of organizations and projects focused on gender equality rights and other gender issues. She has also used her involvement in the visual arts as a mean to promote the rights of women. Ardjana aims to be a role model to women in Albania.
Ardjana holds an incorporated LLM from the Law Faculty of Tirana University. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Tirana University and Nebraska University (USA).