Teuta Arifi

Teuta Arifi
Mayor of Municipality of Tetovo
Incumbent
Assumed office April 2013
Personal details
Born	Tetovo, Macedonia
Political party	Democratic Union for Integration

Teuta Arifi (Macedonian: Теута Арифи) is a Macedonian politician of Albanian origin. On April 2013 Teuta Arifi was elected the Mayor of Municipality of Tetovo. Previous to her run for local elections, Teuta Arifi served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs. Arifi was the first Albanian woman to be elected in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia in 2002. She was subsequently re-elected as Member of Parliament in 2006, 2008, and 2011. She also holds the position of Vice-President of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), key political party of the Albanians in Macedonia Education:

Education

• 2000 PhD degree in Philology; Thesis: Representation of women in Albanian traditional law and in Albanian literature since the beginnings of the 20th century, Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia;

• 1999 – 2001 Research fellow, CORE Institute, OSCE studies at Hamburg University;

• 1995 MA degree in Philosophy, Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia;

• 1992 Fellowship at the Women Leadership Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA;

• 1991 BA degree in Philology, University of Prishtina, Republic of Serbia

Profesional Experience:

• 28 July 2011 Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs;

• 2008 - 2011 Member of Parliament, Head of Committee for International Relations (Organizing the first overseas hearing in Parliament on Bilateral agreements between Macedonia and USA);

• 2006 - 2008 Member of Parliament, Head of Committee for Cultural Issues;

• 2006- Columnist in the daily Macedonian newspaper ‘Dnevnik’;

• 2002 -2006 Member of Parliament; Head of Committee for International Relations; member of Delegation of the Macedonian Parliament to the Council of Europe; Head of the Macedonian Parliamentary delegation to NATO

• 2002- Deputy-president of the Democratic Union for Integration, key political party of Albanians in Macedonia;

• 2001 – 2006 Head of Teacher training Faculty at Southeast European University (SEEU) in Tetovo, Macedonia;

• 2001- Member of Joint Boards of SEE University;

• 2001- Associate-professor in Multicultural Studies at the Teacher Training Faculty - SEE University, Tetovo, Macedonia;

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