{{Short description|Albanian politician (born 1966)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mirela Kumbaro | image = Mirela Kumbaro1.jpg | office = Minister of Education | term_start = {{Start date|2025|9|19|df=y}} | president = Bajram Begaj | prime_minister = Edi Rama | predecessor = Ogerta Manastirliu | office1 = Minister of Tourism and Environment | term_start1 = {{Start date|2021|9|18|df=y}} | term_end1 = {{End date|2025|9|19|df=y}} | president1 = Ilir Meta (until 24 July 2022)<br>Bajram Begaj (since 24 July 2022) | prime_minister1 = Edi Rama | predecessor1 = Blendi Klosi | successor1 = Blendi Gonxhja | office2 = Minister of Culture | term_start2 = {{Start date|2013|9|15|df=y}} | term_end2 = {{End date|2019|1|17|df=y}} | president2 = Bujar Nishani<br>Ilir Meta | prime_minister2 = Edi Rama | predecessor2 = Visar Zhiti | successor2 = Elva Margariti | office3 = Member of the Albanian parliament | term_start3 = {{Start date|2017|9|9|df=y}} | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | party = Socialist Party | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|3|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Tirana, Albania | alma_mater = University of Tirana, University of Sorbonne | profession = Professor, Translator | cabinet = Rama Cabinet (I, II, III, IV) | signature = Mirela Kumbaro (nënshkrim).svg | caption = Official portrait, 2022 }} '''Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi''' (born 4 March 1966), is an Albanian politician currently serving as the Minister of Education of Albania since 19 September 2025. Previously she has served as the Minister of Tourism and Environment from 2021 to 2025 and as the Minister of Culture from 2013 to 2019.
== Education == Kumbaro completed university studies and graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Foreign Languages, with papers in French, in 1988.
In 2009, was made a Doctor of Science in the field of translation studies at the University of Tirana and received a master's degree in translation and intercultural communication in 1994, at the School of Interpreting and Translation at Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mirela Kumbaro - Minister of Culture |url=http://www.kryeministria.al/en/government/prime-minister-cabinet/kumbaro-mirela |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410155605/http://www.kryeministria.al/en/government/prime-minister-cabinet/kumbaro-mirela |archive-date=10 April 2014 |accessdate=9 July 2017 |publisher=Prime Minister's Office}}</ref>
== Career == Kumbaro has worked as a translator, publisher and international expert on intercultural projects and university research programs undertaken by international organizations like the European Union and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
Kumbaro has been an associate professor since 2012 at the University of Tirana in the field of linguistics.
== Political career == In the 2017 elections, she was elected as member of parliament for Gjirokastër County.
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