Moisiu, Alfred

Moisiu, Alfred

▪ president of Albania
in full  Alfred Spiro Moisiu 
born Dec. 1, 1929, Shkodër, Alb.

      Albanian military expert who served as president of Albania (2002–07). He was an independent politician chosen to reconcile the opposing political parties of his country.

      Born into a family with a long history of military service, Moisiu fought against the German occupation of Albania during World War II (1943–45). He was educated in the Soviet Union, graduating in 1948 from the Military Engineering School in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and in 1958 from the Academy of Military Engineering in Moscow, where he earned a Golden Medal. He held multiple military positions before starting work for the engineering department of the Albanian Ministry of Defense in 1958, where he eventually became full director of engineering and fortifications (1971) and deputy defense minister (1981). He received his Ph.D. in military science in 1979.

      After time away from politics, Moisiu was appointed defense minister in 1991. He soon became counselor to the defense minister (1992) and then deputy minister (1994). In 1994 he founded the Albanian North Atlantic Association. With the personal motto “West, Peace, Justice, and Development,” he became a leader of Albania's efforts to integrate with the West. Moisiu lost his position in the ministry in 1997 but returned to the political forefront five years later. As a politically neutral candidate supported by both the socialist and democratic parties, Moisiu served as president of Albania from July 2002 through July 2007. Fluent in Russian, Italian, and English, Moisiu published many military- and defense-related articles as well as the book Kosovo: Between War and Peace (2004).

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