NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ALBANIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Ravesa Lleshi, the new Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Lleshi had been serving as Charge d’Affaires a.i. Head of Mission of the Permanent Mission of Albania to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international organizations in Vienna from March 2016 to January 2018. From September 2013 to February 2016, she served as an Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for issues related to international organizations, international law and security policy.

Ms. Lleshi was an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New York in Tirana, Albania from 2010 to 2014, and a Legal Research Consultant at the Institute for Economic and Legal Consulting in Tirana from 2009 to 2013. She was an Editor at Wolf Legal Publishers in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2013; Editor-in-Chief of the Tilburg Law Review at Tilburg University in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2009; and Editor of the Tilburg Law Review from 2004 to 2007.

Ms. Lleshi has a Master of Laws in international and European public law from Tilburg University, Faculty of Law, and a Bachelor of Laws in international and European law from the same university. She was born on 1 June 1976.


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