Gilbert Galanxhi (born July 28, 1962 in Tirana), served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Albania to the United States of America until 2015.
Galanxhi attended and graduated from Tirana University, Faculty of History and Philology, the English Language and Literature Department.
By the time that he was part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania, he attended the Swiss International Relations Institute of Geneva, Switzerland, where he graduated in 1994.
Galanxhi accepted this position, moved to Washington, DC and bestowed his Letter of Credence on February 23, 2011 to President Barack Obama.
He worked alongside Paige Alexander, the Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, and President Michael Granoff to continue with the efforts of an initial grant of $30 million presented by the USAID to Albania in 1995 to help with their economic transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union.