Gorazd Justinek is Assistant Professor of International Business and Assistant Professor of International Political, Economic and Business Relations. A former diplomat and founding member of the Division for Economic Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, he has also been the Head of the Division for Internationalisation at the Public Agency of Slovenia for several years, the focus of which is entrepreneurship and direct foreign investment. During Slovenia’s EU Council Presidency in 2008, Dr. Justinek was the domestic macroeconomic and foreign economic relations adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. After Slovenia’s accession to the OECD, he became the coordinator of Slovenia’s representatives within the institutional bodies of the OECD in Paris, and worked on the programme budget of Slovenia, as well as macroeconomic analysis and reforms in the public sector. For two mandates, he was the CEO of a non-governmental organisation, The Centre for European Perspectives, which is the key implementation body of the Republic of Slovenia’s regarding development assistance in the Western Balkans, and also is a research centre with several Horizon 2020 projects. Dr. Justinek is the founder and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy (Geneva), and a member on several other editorial boards of international scientific journals (Scopus and WoS).

Bibliography: http://splet02.izum.si/cobiss/bibliography?code=35652.

Contact: gorazd.justinek@emuni.si