Ornela Çuçi is the former Vice Minister at the Ministry of Tourism and Environment in the Government of Albania. Çuçi is currently a professor and an Administrator of UET Enterprise at the University of Tirana. Prior to this, she worked as the National Coordinator for Urban Waste management in the Albanian Prime Minister’s office, as the CEO of Barleti Institute for Research and Development, as Project Director for the Foundation for Economic Freedom, and Executive Director at the Albanian University Center.