Arlind Gjokutaj was born in Gjirokastra in 1981. He studied Business Administration at “Bocconi” University in Milan, as well as completed his master’s studies in Finance and Risk Management at “Bicocca” University in Milan.

Gjokutaj is a member of the High Level Management Team (TND) since January 2016.

His career in the public sector:

• He started as an expert on fiscal and monetary issues at the Bank of Albania Special Coordinator for the Economy at the Council of Ministers (2015-2017)
• General Director of the Money Laundering Prevention Directorate (2017-2019)
• General Director of Customs (2019) and
• General Director of the Special Anticorruption and Antievasion Unit (2020-2021)
• On October 5, 2021, he was appointed Secretary General in the Ministry of Finance and Economy