Teuta Arifi (; born 19 October 1969) is a Macedonian politician of Albanian origin. In 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 North Macedonia. She speaks Albanian, Macedonian, English, French, Italian and Turkish. 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, North Macedonia; • 1999 – 2001 Research fellow, CORE Institute, OSCE studies at Hamburg University; • 1995 MA degree in Philosophy, Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje, North 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 Professional 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 North 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, North Macedonia; • 2001– Member of Joint Boards of SEE University; • 2001– Associate-professor in Multicultural Studies at the Teacher Training Faculty – SEE University, Tetovo, North Macedonia; • 1998 – 2000 Deputy-chair of group of specialists of Council of Europe on positive actions in the field of equality between women and men; • 1997 Assistant-professor on the subject of History of Albanian Literature, Faculty of Philology, Department of Albanian