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	Borut Pahor

Borut Pahor

Borut Pahor was born on 2 November 1963 in Postojna. A Bachelor of Political Sciences, he majored in international relations from the then Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism. He graduated with honours in 1987, receiving the highest Slovenian academic awards (the Prešeren and Zore Awards) for students for his undergraduate thesis.

He began his political career in 1990 as a delegate in the then Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, where he also chaired the youth and international affairs committees.

In 1992, he was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly. During his 1992–1996 term he served on the Assembly's Commission for EU Affairs, the Commission for the Supervision of Intelligence and Security Services and the Committee on Defence, and also led Slovenia's delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In 1993, he became vice leader of the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD).

He was re-elected as a deputy in the National Assembly in 1996. Up until April 1997 he served as a Vice-President and was a member of the Committee on International Relations, the Constitutional Commission and the Committee on Defence, the Chairman of the Slovenian Delegation to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

At the 3rd ZDSL congress in March 1997 in Ljubljana, he was elected the new party leader.

At the 2000 general election, he was elected as a deputy and became President of the National Assembly.

In June 2001, he was re-elected leader of the ZLSD at the party's congress in Koper.

In June 2004, before the end of his term in the Slovenian National Assembly, he was elected via a preference vote as an MEP at the European parliamentary elections. There, he was a member of the Socialist Group, the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, and was the Vice-Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

On his initiative the party was renamed the Social Democrats (SD) at the ZLSD's 5th congress in April 2005 held in Ljubljana. 

The 2008 general elections brought a relative victory to the Social Democrats. Acting on the basis of the election result and having consulted parliamentary groups, the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Danilo Türk, appointed Borut Pahor formateur, which was confirmed on 7 November by a ballot in the National Assembly. A new government was sworn in on 21 November 2008.

Borut Pahor is fluent in English and Italian, and has working knowledge of French. In his free time he particularly enjoys playing sport.

Office of the Prime Minister

	mag.Simona Dimic

Gregorčičeva 20, 25,
1000 Ljubljana
Phone: + 386 478 11 00
Fax: + 386 1 478 17 21
E-mail: gp.kpv[@]gov.si

Head of the Office
Simona Dimic, MA
Phone: + 386 1 478 11 14
E-mail: simona.dimic[@]gov.si

Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Cabinet
Jadranka Gustinčič, MSc
Public Information Officer
Phone: +386 1 478 1117
E-mail: jadranka.gustincic[@]gov.si  

State Secretaries in the Office of the Prime Minister

	dr. Rado Genorio

Rado Genorio, Ph.D.

Phone: + 386 1 478 11 55

E-mail: rado.genorio[@]gov.si

Dr Rado Genorio was born on 27 April 1954 in Stična na Dolenjskem. He attended elementary school in his hometown where he also graduated from the Josip Jurčič secondary school in 1973. In the same year he enrolled at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he completed his studies in 1978. For his achievements in research, he received two student awards of the Prešern Fund.  In 1978, he was employed at the Institute of Geography, University of Ljubljana, as an assistant and simultaneously started his master's course, and in 1981 obtained his master's degree. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis in geography in 1990 under the guidance of his mentor Prof. Dr Vladimir Klemenčič, a Science Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia. In his work, Dr Genorio focused on political geography, geopolitics as well as economic and social geography. His scientific and research work comprises more than a hundred units.

Between 1984 and 1992, he was head of the Institute of Geography, University of Ljubljana. In this period, science and research were most productive and a fundamental work of Slovenian geographers was finalised: the National Atlas of Slovenia which was published in the independent and internationally recognised Slovenia.

In 1992, he was appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Science and Technology in the then government of the Republic of Slovenia.  This coincided with the launch of the PHARE pre-accession programme. Dr Genorio also conducted negotiations for agreements on scientific and technical co-operation with the world leading nations in this field, including the United States of America, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Japan.  In 1994, his work lead to Slovenia’s full membership of EUREKA.

At the European Commission's insistence to transfer co-ordination of European affairs from the then Ministry of Science and Technology to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr Genorio worked at the European Affairs Office of the latter Ministry from 1996 to 1997. Upon the establishment of the Government Office for European Affairs in December 1997, he has worked as State Secretary in this newly established government office until 2003, and since 2006 as Deputy Director. In these years, he was a key figure in Slovenia’s endeavours to join the European Union, NATO and the Schengen Area.

Following Slovenia's international recognition, his capacity of a national co-ordinator for the European Union's pre-accession funds was at the heart of his activities. Considerable credit for the fact that Slovenia was always the leading candidate for the membership of the European Union, which successfully drew all the available European funds, goes to Dr Genorio in his capacity of an experienced negotiator for European funds. This enabled Slovenia to adequately prepare itself for discharging obligations arising from its membership after 1 May 2004. He also made a significant contribution to the most recent enlargement of the Schengen area, a field where he was active for an entire decade.

For his rich scientific and research work as well as his work in various Slovenian governments, Dr Genorio received numerous awards and honours.

Andrej Horvat, Ph.D.

E-mail: andrej.horvat[@]gov.si

	Nataša Kovač

Nataša Kovač
Phone: 01 478 11 17
e-mail: natasa.kovac1[@]gov.si

Nataša Kovač was born on 27th December 1958 in Ljubljana, where she attended primary and secondary school. She graduated with summa cum laude honours from VII Gimnazija Vič high school. In 1985 she graduated from the then Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism of the University of Ljubljana, Department of Politology. During her studies she was actively involved in youth issues and served one term as Chairperson of the then youth organisation (ZSMS) of the Community of Vič. In the period between 1978 and 1986, she served two terms as delegate to the Socio-political Council of the municipal assembly.

For a number of years she was International Secretary of the Social Democratic Party. During that time she established excellent contacts within the European space, which proved essential to Slovenia’s efforts to join the European Union. In the past few years, as the secretary of the party committees, she was also chief of staff of the presidential candidate Lev Kreft’s election campaign, Secretary of the Council of the Party Chairman, Borut Pahor, and Partnership for Development co-ordinator, which was a form of cooperation between the Government and the Opposition during the previous administration.

	Miloš Pavlica

Miloš Pavlica
Phone: 01 478 11 17
e-mail: milos.pavlica[@]gov.si

Miloš Pavlica was born on 3 October 1950. After graduating from the Faculty of Law Mr Pavlica worked for over twenty years in the enterprise sector. During his work in the Iskra electronics business system he was active in the area of planning, organisation, human resources and remuneration, as well as in administrative and political bodies of the Iskra company. He concluded his career at Iskra as the business secretary of Iskra Ltd.

In 1992, he was elected to the first composition of the Slovenian National Assembly. Afterwards, he worked as an advisor to the deputy group of the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD) in the National Assembly until 2004, when he was appointed vice-mayor of the Municipality of Ljubljana and performed his duties on a professional basis. He was first elected to the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Ljubljana in 1998. At present, he is discharging his duties as a municipal councillor in his third term of office. 

Mr Pavlica was also vice-president of the Slovenian Labour Party upon its establishment in 1991 and subsequently acted as its president for six years. In 1997, he was elected vice-president of the United List of Social Democrats and held this office for a period of eight years. Currently, he still holds the office of president of the Labour Union of the Social Democrats and is a member of the core leadership of the Social Democrats.

Mr Pavlica has also held several offices in non-governmental organisations and supervisory bodies of companies and institutes.

	Jožef Školč

Jožef Školč
Phone: 01 478 11 17
e-mail: jozef.skolc[@]gov.si

Jožef Školč was born in 1960 in Breginje, Slovenia. He graduated from the Department of International Politology at the Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism, University of Ljubljana. In 1988, he was elected Chairman of the Republican Conference of the League of Socialist Youth of Slovenia (ZSMS), the then youth organisation, which after the first democratic elections became reorganised as the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia political party. Under the leadership of Jožef Školč, the League of Socialist Youth of Slovenia paved the way for a multi-party system, facilitated the operation of non-governmental organisations and applied their initiatives to political life. Through the ZSMS, most of the initiatives of the civil society were adopted, which significantly marked the democratisation of Slovenia.

Jožef Školč remained President of Liberal Democracy of Slovenia till 1992, when he was succeeded by Dr Janez Drnovšek. In the same year, he was the first elected deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and remained in this position for several terms until 2008. From 1994 to 1996, he served as President of the National Assembly. Between 1997 and 2000, he was Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. During his term of office, Jožef Školč paid special attention not only to public institutes in the field of culture, but also to non-governmental organisations, the so-called alternative culture, to which he ensured better conditions for operation.

In 2007, he took over the leadership of the Deputy Club of Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. In 2008, he was appointed State Secretary responsible for the field of non-governmental organisations.

Public Relations

Špela Vovk

Phone: + 386 1 478 17 67

Fax: + 386 1 478 15 14

E-mail: soj.kpv[@]gov.si, spela.vovk[@]gov.si 

Peter Bajec

Phone: + 386 1 478 17 67

E-mail: peter.bajec[@]gov.si, soj.kpv[@]gov.si

Maša Požar

Phone: + 386 1 478 14 25

E-mail: masa.pozar[@]gov.si, soj.kpv[@]gov.si

Nataša Lombergar

Phone: + 386 1 478 17 67

Fax: + 386 1 478 15 14

E-mail: soj.kpv[@]gov.si, natasa.lombergar[@]gov.si