Date and place of birth: 21 November 1970, Ljubljana
Education: BA in Economics, Harvard University
Languages: English and Russian
Marital status: Married, with one child
Career:
2011-present: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels
2009–2011: Ambassador, Director-General for Global Issues and Multilateral Political Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
2005–2008: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to the Russian Federation and, by non-resident accreditation, to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, based in Moscow
2004: Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Slovenia to the OSCE in Vienna
2003–2004: Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Republic of Slovenia
2001–2002: Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia
2000: Second Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Washington
2000: Assistant Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
1998–1999: Third Secretary at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Slovenia to the UN and Alternate Representative of the Republic of Slovenia in the UN Security Council in New York
1996–1997: Attaché in the Policy Planning and Research Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and Secretary of the Diplomatic Academy
Other:
2009–2012: Chairman of the Inter-Agency Working Group of the Republic of Slovenia on NATO
2009–2012: Chairman of the Managing Board of the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF)
2008: Awarded the medal of Saints Cyril and Methodius by the Patriarch of Moscow and of All-Russia Alexius II
2002–2004: Member of the Working Group for the establishment of the Forum of Slavic Cultures
2001: Member of the Organizational Committee for the preparation of the Bush-Putin Summit in Slovenia
