Richard Lukaj
Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director · Bank Street Group
Richard Lukaj co-founded Bank Street Group, an investment bank that works in media, communications, and technology, where he's a Senior Managing Director. Before that he was at Bear Stearns, helping build its investment-banking franchise. He's worked in the field for more than twenty years.
Away from finance, he's spent decades on Albanian-American and Balkan causes. He has chaired the National Albanian American Council, and Albania named him its Honorary Consul to the United States, a title the U.S. State Department confirmed.
He co-founded and chaired the American University in Kosovo. He co-founded Action for Mothers and Children, which gets medical equipment to mothers and newborns in Kosovo, and ran the Hands of Hope campaign with Mercy Corps and Americares. With USAID, he set up the Hope Fellowship to train women from the Balkans for leadership roles.