Ambassador Dritan TOLA studied literature and law and followed various postgraduate studies in Europe.
He has worked for the European Union (European Commission and European External Action Service of the EU), where he held different functions as Political Adviser and was in charge of political, European integration and other European and regional developments issues. He was also responsible for European programmes in the fields of development, democratisation, human rights and civil society, media and culture, public administration, environment, etc.
In 2013, he took up his duties as Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to France (resident) and to Monaco (non-resident), as well as Representative of Albania to the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF). Since 2015, he is also Ambassador of Albania (non-resident) to Portugal.
Ambassador Tola has been chairman and/or member of steering committees of various international organisms and programmes in the fields of development and democratisation, such as the development programmes of the UNDP (UN) and the World Bank, of the Open Society Foundation, the Albanian Academy of Political Studies, the European Regional Environment Centre, etc. He is a founding member of “Lions Club Albania” and “Retromobile Club Albania”. He is also a member of the Cercle de l’Union Interalliée in Paris, and, since 2016, member of the Board of Directors of Schiller International University/Paris Campus.
