Agron Alibali is Special Counsel with Frost & Fire Consulting. Trained in law both in Albania and the U.S., Mr. Alibali focuses on a range of issues of public international law, ADR, international environmental law, and human and ethnic minority rights. Mr. Alibali began his legal career in the Albanian Ministry of Justice in Tirana. He represented the Albanian government in important international legal fora, such as The Hague Conference on Private International Law, the 9th U.N. Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and participated in a IMF-sponsored project for the Civil Code of Albania. From 1998 until 2000, Mr. Alibali worked as legal analyst with the ADR group at the John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. in Boston, MA, and from 2003 until 2006 was an Adjunct Professor at Bryant University in Rhode Island, teaching the courses on Banking law and Business law. Since 2005, Mr. Alibali has worked as a legal consultant with several international clients and provided pro bono legal assistance to various civil society organizations in Albania, focusing on issues of public international law, international environmental law, public participation, domestic law and EU acquis on integrated waste management, etc.  He has been nominated twice to become a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (the quasi-judicial body of the Aarhus Convention). Mr. Alibali has an outstanding background in public international law. In 2009, he was actively engaged in the professional debate concerning the Draft Maritime Agreement between Albania and Greece, which was later unanimously declared invalid by the Constitutional Court of Albania. In 2014, Mr. Alibali joined as a Title VIII scholar the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C., undertaking significant research on issues of International Law of the Sea in the waters adjacent to Southeastern Europe. He is also a Visiting Fellow with the University of Massachusetts in Boston focusing on the rule of law, and related projects, in Southeastern Europe and elsewhere. Born in Tirana, Albania, Mr. Alibali studied finance and law at the University of Tirana and received his law degree in 1994. In 1996, Mr. Alibali graduated with a Master of Laws degree in International Banking and Finance Law Studies from Boston University School of Law, ranking within the top ten students of his class and being the first Albanian to graduate from that program. In 2000, Mr. Alibali studied at Harvard Law School as a Visiting Researcher, focusing on international human rights law, international law and European Community law. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Alibali was an accountant with the Traktori Industrial Plant in Tirana, Albania. He has been a member of various professional organizations, such as the International Bar Association, and the American Society for International Law. Mr. Alibali has published several articles on various issues of Albanian Constitution and laws, including in specialized journals in North America and Europe. He is also the author of the book “The Constitution, Europe And The Chamerian Minority”, Tirana, 2013. Mr. Alibali is admitted to practice in the Republic of Albania and is member of the Albanian Bar Association. He may be reached by phone at +355 4 450 0230 or by email at [email protected].