Besiana Kadare

Besiana Kadare
Besiana Kadare in the UN General Assembly hall
Vice-President of the 75th UN General Assembly
In office
16 September 2020  14 September 2021
PresidentVolkan Bozkir
Secretary-GeneralAntónio Guterres
13th Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations
In office
30 June 2016  1 October 2021
PresidentBujar Nishani
Ilir Meta
Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon
António Guterres
Preceded byFerit Hoxha
Succeeded byFerit Hoxha
Albanian non-resident Ambassador to Cuba
In office
30 June 2016  1 October 2021
PresidentBujar Nishani
Ilir Meta
Preceded byFerit Hoxha
Succeeded byFerit Hoxha
Personal details
Born1972 (age 5253)
Tirana, Albania
Parents
Alma materParis IV-Sorbonne University

Besiana Kadare (born 1972) is an Albanian diplomat. She served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations, a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly for its 75th session, and Albania's ambassador to Cuba. Albania sat on the UN Security Council for a two-year term, 2022–23. She was formerly from 2011 to 2016 Albania's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. She is the daughter of writers Helena Kadare and Ismail Kadare.