In August 2022, Valentina Leskaj is elected board member of the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS)[3] Valentina and her family speak in the Tosk dialect of the Albanian language and are ethnic Albanians.
On September 14, 2020, Valentina Leskaj was elected to the advisory board of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM),[4] becoming the first Muslim member of the board.
From 2014 to 2017, she was elected Member of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe and Political Affairs Committee[7]
From 2013 to 2017, she held the position of president of the parliamentary Albania-Israel Friendship Group[9]
On June 25, 2015, Valentina Leskaj, was elected Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for Moldova.[10] She was nominated by the Socialist Group and voted with the support of all political groups at the Monitoring Committee meeting held in Strasbourg. She held this position until 2017.
In 2014, she was elected Vice President of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe and held the position until 2016[11]
Leskaj was the Albanian Parliamentary Assembly Leader for the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party from 2007 to 2009[12]
From 2006 to 2009 she was chairwoman of the CEI Parliamentary Committee on Education and Culture.
From 2005 to 2013, Leskaj served as chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commission for Education and Media.[13]
In 2004, she was appointed chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commission for EU Integration, a position that she held until 2005.
From 2003 to 2009, Leskaj served as chairwoman of the Albanian Parliament delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[14]
In 2003, she was elected Chairwomen of the Parliamentary Commission for Labour and Social Affairs and served until 2004.
Leskaj is graduated in Political Economy at the University of Tirana, Economic Faculty,[16] Valentina Leskaj was a lecturer of this faculty from 1979 to 1987.
From 1983 to 1988, she was chief editor of the magazine Shqiptarja e Re, a magazine created by The Organ of the Women's Union of Albania during the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
Since 1994, Leskaj is cofounder and vice president of the UNESCO Center for Women and Peace in the Balkan Countries and of Inter-Balkan Women's Co-operation Societies.[17]
Leskaj was a founder of the Albanian Center for Population and Development[18] (ACPD), a non-profit organization established in 1995 which works for improvement of policies, legislation, the right of information and services for issues concerning population and development, and health issues including reproductive health. She was an executive director until 2002.
Between 2003 and 2014, she was president of the Albanian Centre for Population and Development.
From 1997 to 2002, she was president of the Albanian NGOs Forum, an umbrella organization.
Publications
Leskaj, Valentina (2022), Tolerance and Coexistence: opinion,[19]
Leskaj, Valentina;(2016) " Asimetrite e Zhvillimit si Shkak i Varferise", ISBN9789928190673[22]
Leskaj, Valentina (2013), The 28th International Women Leaders’ Conference: The Post-2015 and Sustainable Development Goals Agenda: Ensuring the centrality of gender equality and women's empowerment in the next framework. Published in November 2013, Haifa, Israel[23]
Leskaj, Valentina (2000) "Shoqeria Shqiptare Perballe Sfidave te Trafikut te Grave dhe Vajzave"