Ravesa Lleshi

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Ravesa Lleshi
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Born1 June 1976 (1976-06) (age 48)
NationalityAlbanian

Ravesa Lleshi (born 1 June 1976) became the Albanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2018.

Life

Lleshi was born in 1976 [2] and she graduated in the Netherlands from Tilburg University with a master's degree in international and European public law. She is fluent in English and Dutch. [3]

From 2010 until 2014 she was in Tirana where she lectured at the facility offered there by the University of New York Tirana. [2]

She was based in Austria from March 2016 when she led her country's mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe until January 2018 when she became an adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [2]

She became the Albanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2018. [2] Lleshi is also responsible for her country's representation with the World Intellectual Property Organization, for instance in 2019 she was one of the first to sign up to an international agreement that would give protection to regional products such as Darjeeling tea. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Organization, World Intellectual Property (2019-06-26), Albania Joins Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications , retrieved 2020-02-19
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Where global solutions are shaped for you | News & Media | NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ALBANIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA". www.unog.ch. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  3. "Bio | Permanent Mission of the Republic of Albania to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva". www.ambasadat.gov.al. Retrieved 2020-02-19.