Asst. Prof. DDr. Maja Pucelj is the Head of Research, Development and Innovation at EMUNI University. She serves as an Assistant Professor and acts as the Director of the master’s programme Digitalisation and Human Rights at EMUNI.

She graduated from the Faculty of Public Administration in Ljubljana and the Faculty of Management in Koper. She holds a master’s degree from the Faculty of Government and European Studies at the New University and from the European Faculty of Law. She completed her first doctoral degree in the humanities at Alma Mater Europaea – ISH, and her second doctoral degree at the Faculty of Government and European Studies of the New University in the field of international studies, with a focus on human rights.

She began her professional career as a police officer and member of a special police unit. She later worked as a risk manager in the leasing and banking sector, Director of Marketing in the private sector, and as an auditor in an audit company. Prior to joining Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) and Faculty of organisational studies (FOŠ), she served as an Advisor to the Minister of Education, Science and Sport, covering pre-school, primary, secondary and higher education, adult education, and quality assurance in education. She also served as an Undersecretary in the Service for the Implementation of Cohesion Policy at the same ministry, where she led the preparation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) for the Slovenian education sector.

She teaches and co-teaches courses in Human rights in the digital era, Fundamentals of Law in Organizational Studies, Organizational Behaviour, and the Seminar for Doctoral Dissertation. In 2024, she received an award from the Slovenian Ombudsman for the best PhD research in the field of human rights in Slovenia. In the same year, she completed the International Postdoctoral Programme in Globalisation and Human Rights at the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research. Her research interests focus on human rights, law, digital ethics, social responsibility, and gender equality.