Zihni Buzo

[1] He attended the Harry Fultz school in Tirana and achieved good results earning Buzo a scholarship to study at the American Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.

[1][3][2] He graduated university with good grades and as a result of social connections made at Harvard, Buzo was employed by an Anglo-American company as a civil engineer in Albania.

[1][3][2] Water supply projects were the area where Buzo worked on in Greece and Albania, in particular to combat malaria and he had a keen interest in environmental impacts.

[2] Although the project experienced some environmental and fiscal challenges, Buzo developed a design and implemented the dam's construction on the Oaky River during the 1950s.

[10][11] His granddaughter is Eva Buzo, an Australian human rights lawyer and long–distance swimmer who was the first woman to swim from Lecce, Italy to Vlorë, Albania in honour of her grandfather.