Mrs. Vasilika Vjero

Mrs. Vasilika Vjero was born in Tirana in 1976.
Mrs.Vjero graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, Department of Business Administration in 1998. In 2003 she completed a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln USA, and University of Tirana, Faculty of Economy. She has also been trained in economic growth by Harvard Kennedy School.
Ms. Vjero has held senior management positions, such as General Director of Taxes, General Director of the National Business Center, General Director of the Albanian Road Authority. In her career she counts more than 10 years of work experience for the Municipality of Tirana in the management of the Tax Administration and the Department of Strategic Planning and local budgets, as well as a series of experiences as a financial expert with foreign donors. She has also served as an expert independent fiscal and budget for local government in Albania for a total of 24 municipalities and communes throughout the country.
Ms. Vjero speaks english and italian.

Mr. Genc Mamani

Genci Mamani is the General Director of the Albanian Deposit Insurance Agency and at the same time a member of its Steering Council.
Mr. Mamani, graduated in 1991 at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, Department of Finance.
In 2001 he completed postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin – La Cross, USA, in finance – banking and in 2012 he postgraduate at master’s level in Business Administration at the International Hellenic University, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Mr. Mamani started his career in 1991 as an economist at the Central Bank of Albania. He pursued his career by holding managerial positions on different commercial banks such as FEFAD Bank (actually Pro Credit Bank), the Italian-Albanian Bank and further on to be back at the Bank of Albania until late 2015. In July 2015 he took over as General Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency.
Mr. Mamani is fluent in English and Italian.

Mr. Donald Duraj

Mr. Donald Duraj was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Deposit Insurance Agency in 2015. He has a progressive career of more than 15 years in the banking system, an integral part of which have been quite active and successful achievements within various prestigious local financial institutions and those in the international network such as Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Belarus. Since 2015, Mr. Duraj holds the position of Chief of Staff of the Governor of the Bank of Albania with the responsibility of advising, assisting, monitoring and coordinating all issues related to the progress and proper functioning of the Governor’s Office and other departments of the Bank of Albania. From 2010 to 2015 Mr. Duraj was Head of Commercial Organization and Market Development Sector at Societe Generale Bank in Albania playing a key role in the strategic direction, short-term and long-term planning, setting key objectives, coordinating inter-divisional and inter-institutional relations, locally and internationally, with public and private companies, et cetera. During this period Mr. Duraj has successfully led at least 15 projects, among the most important ones for the Bank, and with a direct impact on the expansion of activity in the local market and with an increase in profitability. Mr. Duraj worked from 2005 to 2010 at Raiffeisen Bank Albania and Raiffeisen International Austria covering key operational and strategic positions. The most important of them were Head of Individuals Segment, Head of Consumer Credit Products, Project Manager in the “Retail Leadership” Program at Raiffeisen International Austria, etc. Mr. Duraj has graduated at the Faculty of Economics, Department of Finance, Banking Profile, at the University of Tirana.

03/30/2023

National final of Money Quiz 2023

On 30 March 2023, the Albanian Association of Banks (AAB), in cooperation with the Bank of Albania and with the support of the Ministry of Education and Sport and the Albanian Deposit Insurance Agency (ADIA), organized for the fifth time the national final of the European Money Quiz, with the participation of 926 students of the group aged 13-15 from 89 schools from all over the country. The competition was performed online and was attended with high interest, Livestream on AAB’s YouTube channel by more than 1,700 viewers. Participants competed through the online platform Kahoot!, organized in 463 teams.

The participating students were greeted by Mr. Genci Mamani, General Director of the Albanian Deposit Insurance Agency, Mrs. Ledja Bregu, Director of the Department of Payment, Accounting and Finance Systems at the Bank of Albania, and the AAB Secretary General, Mr. Spiro Brumbulli.

The winning team of the 2023 National Money Quiz is from the “Imelda Lambertini” school in Elbasan and consists of: Henri Terolli and Armi Tafa.

The winning team of the second place is from the “Sotir Gurra” school in Korca and consists of: Oresti Çela and Georg Qafzezi.

The third-place winning team is from the “Kongresi i Manastirit” school in Tirana and consists of students: Mario Ballo and Dart Ymeraj.

A special thanks to teachers Albin Malelli, Mitiana Trungu, and Donika Lici, who enabled the organization and preparation of the winning teams.

The winning team will compete representing Albania in the European Money Quiz, which will be held on 16 May 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. The winning teams will be rewarded by the Albanian Deposit Insurance Agency and the Bank of Albania as previously announced, while Raiffeisen Bank will support the participation of the winning team in the European competition in Brussels.

We would like to thank all students and teachers for their commitment and contribution to successfully realizing this unique national competition in the field of financial education!

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