Teuta graduated philology at the University of Prishtina in 1991, while in 1995 obtained MA degree in Philosophy, from Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. She also holds PhD degree in Philology from the Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje. She was Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs in July 2011 till March 2013. She has extensive political background as she was the first Albanian woman to be elected in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia in 2002. She served as parliamentarian in several terms in 2006, 2008, and 2011. She was the Chair of Committee for Foreign Affairs, Chair of the Committee for Cultural Affairs, and member of the Delegation of the Macedonian Parliament to the Council of Europe, Head of the Macedonian Parliamentary Delegation to NATO. She is Vice-President of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), key political party of the Albanians in Macedonia. With renowned academic background she is one of the key founders and professors of the Southeast European University (SEEU) in Tetovo and professor at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius.

Her international experience includes a number of significant assignments as Member of the Research Team of the Peace Institute, University of Hamburg, concerning the work of High Commissioner of Minorities in OSCE; Member of the Advisory Board of the Team tasked with research of the position of minorities in Southern Europe, CEI-Budapest; Member of the Bureau of the Steering Committee on equality of Council of Europe, Strasbourg; Member of OSCE team for observation of parliamentary elections in Albania in 1995; Member of the Delegation of the Republic of Macedonia to the 4th World Conference on Women Rights, Beijing; and Member of the Macedonian Delegation to OSCE, Vienna, working group on Human Dimension.