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Vjosa Osmani Dr. Vjosa Osmani is currently serving as Chairwoman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, Diaspora and Strategic Investment at the Assembly of Republic of Kosovo. Vjosa Osmani is a Professor of international law, educated in Kosovo and the United States, is an elected member of the national Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo. Dr. Osmani has completed her Bachelor degree at the University of Prishtina, whereas her Masters and Doctorate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law. She currently teaches at the University of Prishtina and at the Rochester Institute of Technology - Kosovo. She also teaches a course on “State-building and the Law” at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, as a Visiting Professor. Now serving her third mandate, Dr. Osmani is the most voted woman in the history of parliamentary elections in the Republic of Kosovo, and the second most voted official in her party, Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). She is now serving as Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Diaspora and Strategic Investment and has previously served as Chairwoman of the Committee for European Integration and Vice-Chair of the Committee for Constitutional Reforms in Kosovo. Before running for parliamentary elections, Dr. Osmani served as Chief-of-Staff and Senior Foreign Policy Advisor as well as Senior Legal Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kosovo. During this period, she was President’s representative in the Constitutional Commission, the body that drafted the first Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo. She was also a member of the Kosovo legal team at the International Court of Justice in the advisory proceedings related to Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence.

Dr. Osmani's work mostly focuses on foreign policy (in particular relations with the United States as well as the Euro-Atlantic integration process), gender and equality issues (social inclusion, gender equality, access to justice, freedom of speech), rule of law (initiatives in fighting corruption and organized crime and ensuring an independent judiciary as well efforts in countering violent extremism and terrorism), and human rights. She is one of the very few politicians in Kosovo that engages for a cross-party dialog for issues that require national unity, at a time when Kosovo's political scene is very much divided and polarized. For that reason, the European Parliament has adopted a Resolution recognizing and welcoming the initiatives that she and a colleague MP undertook to foster political dialog. In 2017, she won the prestigious Sheth International Young Alumni Achievement Award.