Endri Shabani

Endri Shabani is an Albanian academic and politician who has served as the Ombudsman of Albania since December 2025. He was elected by the Parliament of Albania on 11 December 2025, for a five-year term.
Shabani previously served as the leader of Nisma Thurje from 2020 until his resignation in October 2025 and has been a member of the Tirana Municipal Council since 2023.

Education

Shabani completed his secondary education at the Harry Fultz Institute and earned a law degree from Luarasi University in Tirana. In 2013, he pursued a Master of Laws at the University of Oxford, which he completed with top academic results.
In 2014, he was awarded the Clarendon Fund scholarship to undertake doctoral studies in politics and international relations at Oxford. He completed his DPhil in Political Science in 2020 at St Antony's College, Oxford.

Professional career

From 2007 to 2011, Shabani worked as a project manager at Transparency International Albania. He later served for approximately one year as a consultant to the Council of Europe on an anti-corruption project in Albania.
Between 2011 and 2013, he was a lecturer at Luarasi University. In 2017, he served as a consultant for UN Women in Albania.
From 2018 to 2019, Shabani worked as a researcher and briefly as a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris.

Political career

Shabani began his political activism in 2012 during protests against legislation permitting the import of waste into Albania. He later joined Nisma Thurje and was elected as its leader.
In the 2021 Albanian parliamentary election, Shabani received 1,017 preferential votes. In 2023, he was elected to the Tirana Municipal Council.