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Sanja Štiglic (born 10 March 1970) is a Slovenian civil servant, diplomat and politician, and a former President of the UNICEF Executive Board at the international level.
Life
[edit]Sanja Štiglic studied law at the University of Ljubljana.[1]
She was advisor to the foreign minister in 1996 and 1997 then under-secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs in 2003 and 2004.[2]
She served as Slovenia's ambassador to the United Nations in New York from 2007 to 2012, and as President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2011.[3][4] In 2016 she became director-general of the Directorate for Multilateral Affairs, Development Cooperation and International Law, and in the same year, she was appointed state secretary at the Foreign Ministry.[5]
From 2017 to 2022, she was the Slovenian ambassador to the Netherlands and permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).[1]
On 28 September 2023, she is appointed state secretary at the Foreign Ministry.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sanja Štiglic | GOV.SI". Portal GOV.SI. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ Sanja Štiglic, Government of Slovenia
- ^ Officers of the UNICEF Executive Board 1946–2014, UNICEF
- ^ Executive Board, UNICEF
- ^ Sanja Štiglic new state secretary at Foreign Ministry, Slovenia Times
- ^ "STA: Sanja Štiglic named state secretary at Foreign Ministry". english.sta.si. Retrieved 29 April 2024.