Fatos Nano - Personal History

Personal History

Fatos Nano was born in Tirana to Thanas Nano, a former director of Albanian Radio Television, and Maria Nano (née Shuteriqi), a graduate of the American Institute of Kavaja and English language teacher. He was the only male child among female siblings in the family. He grew up in Hoxha Tahsim Street in East Tirana and attended Sami Frasheri High School. In the early years of adolescence, Nano was eager to learn foreign languages and used to play the guitar. In second year of high school, he founded a rock group of which he was the lead singer that played the music of The Beatles, strictly forbidden to the general public at the time. He graduated in Political Economy from University of Tirana in 1974. After graduation in 1978, Nano worked in the management of the metallurgical mills of Elbasan until 1981. From 1981 until 1984, Nano served as an economist at the Priska's Agricultural Farm in Tirana. In 1984, he was appointed as a researcher of socio-economic problems and reforms of market economies of Eastern Bloc countries in the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies in Tirana, where he worked until 1990. During this period, he served as a lecturer in several faculties of the University of Tirana from 1978 until 1990. Nano was married for the first time from July 26, 1976 to 2001 to Rexhina Nano with whom he has 2 children, a son named Sokol and a daughter named Edlira. Since 2002, Fatos Nano divorced and married businesswoman Xhoana Nano, with whom he lives in Tirana together with her son.