Minister

Katarina Kresal

Address: Štefanova ulica 2, 1501 Ljubljana

Phone: + 386 1 428 47 21

Fax: + 386 1 428 59 01

E-mail: katarina.kresal(at)gov.si

Katarina Kresal was born in 1973. She is a Bachelor of Laws. She graduated with honours in 1996 and passed the State Bar Examination in 1999.

After completing her studies, she started working at the Higher Court in Ljubljana as a legal trainee, after which she joined the Commercial Disputes Department of the District Court in Ljubljana as a judicial clerk.

In 2000 she became an independent advisor for legal affairs at Kapitalska družba d.d. Ljubljana, specialising in commercial and corporate law. A year later, she joined the company Western Wireless International as the Director of the Legal Department.

From 2003 onwards, she worked with the law firm of Miro Senica and Attorneys, where she was first an associate attorney, then an attorney, and as of 2005 the Deputy Head of Office as well as the Head of Commercial and International Law Department. She has published her contributions in foreign legal publications and participated in several international conferences.

After being elected President of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia in June 2007, she became employed with the party. In May 2008, she was elected Vice President of Liberal International at the Liberal International Congress in Belfast. The same year saw the publication of her book entitled “A Year in Politics”, which includes her columns, texts, interviews and speeches.

She was elected Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia at the 2008 elections, while in November of the same year she was appointed Minister of the Interior by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.

State Secretary

Goran Klemenčič

Address: Štefanova ulica 2, 1501 Ljubljana

Phone: + 386 1 428 43 24

Fax: + 386 1 428 49 72

E-mail: goran.klemencic(at)gov.si

Goran Klemenčič was born in 1972. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, where he was awarded the title of Bachelor of Laws, he completed a master’s degree at the Harvard Law School, after which he continued post-graduate studies at the National University of Ireland.

He has previously worked at the Ministry of the Interior (Police Guidelines and Supervision Bureau), at the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for the Prevention of Corruption and at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security of the University of Maribor. He worked abroad for a number of years, among other as the Adviser and Project Manager in the Crime Problems Department of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.

He is a senior lecturer in criminal law, police powers and human rights at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security of the University of Maribor. He has published, in Slovenia and abroad, a number of professional and scientific articles, and is the author or co-author of 12 books, some of which have been published in Washington, New York, Strasbourg and Paris.

Since 2003 he has been active as a permanent external partner in the projects of the Council of Europe, the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Commission, the United States Institute for Peace and the Irish Centre for Human Rights involving legislative and institutional reform of criminal law, police powers, specialised authorities for the prosecution of organised crime and corruption, cyber crime and privacy in the light of information technologies. In addition to Europe, he has experience in providing advice and assistance to governmental and international institutions in the Russian Federation, South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, China and Latin America. Furthermore, he has participated in drafting the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

For two years he was a member of the Management Board of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. He is a member of the Expert Council of the Institute of Forensic Information Technologies and a member of the consultative body of the Amnesty International Slovenia. He was also co-founder and (before assuming the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior) first Director of the International Centre for Criminal Law, Human Rights and Privacy.