Myqerem Tafaj

After he returned to Albania, in 1996, Tafaj became director of sciences at the Ministry of Education of Albania. On 12 March 1997, Tafaj was named the Minister of Education in President Sali Berisha's placeholder government.^[1] Tafaj was appointed Education Minister at the height of the country's 1997 political unrest, which had a disastrous effect on Albania's higher education system. Rioting and looting on the campuses of the University of Tirana and the Agricultural University of Tirana resulted in millions of dollars in damage.^[2] The universities were closed from March to May,^[2] and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln suspended its program in Tirana.^[3] During the closures, over four hundred squatters took residence in the dormitories on the campuses.^[2] Tafaj served as Minister until June, when elections were held. In 1999, Tafaj was awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which allowed him to return to Germany and work as a visiting professor at the University of Hohenheim. Eventually, in 2005, he returned to Albania to work as a professor at the Agricultural University of Tirana and as a councilor for the Ministry of Education and Sciences. In 2009, Tafaj was appointed as Minister of Education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sali Berisha.

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