Like his brother Edi, Rama played for Dinamo Tirana basketball until 1996.[1] From 1993 to 1997 he was Program Officer of the Open Society Foundation for Albania (Soros Foundation) where he was in charge of the Youth, Health, Libraries and the East-East programs. Rama moved to the United States in April 1997, after his life was threatened by the secret service because of his involvement with Soros, his activity as a journalist with WorldWide Television News (WTN), and his affiliation with other foreign journalist covering the Albanian insurrection. During his stay in USA, Rama worked as program manager at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI, one of the 49 comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. In addition, Rama has also worked as a consultant with SciTech Development LLC, a drug development start-up from Detroit. He has helped SciTech with several projects and with their contract negotiations with the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health[2]