Who was who during the Slovene Presidency of <strong>EUSAIR</strong> 20-21 Andreja Jerina, Mitja Bricelj Staša Mesec, Iztok Škerlič 12 | <strong>EUSAIR</strong> Slovene Presidency
ANDREJA JERINA National Coordinator of EU Macro-regional Strategies, MInistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia Throughout the pre-accession period of Slovenia, Andreja acted as National Aid Coordinator. She was responsible for setting up the national system for external assistance management and negotiating financial arrangements with the European Commission. After the accession to the EU, in her capacity as Head of the Managing Authority for Structural and Cohesion Funds, she was responsible for the overall national coordination and financial management of EU funds. As Supreme State Auditor at the Court of Audit of Slovenia, she introduced the first audits of expenditures from the EU budget in Slovenia. During the economic and financial crisis, Andreja acted as State Secretary responsible for Development and EU Affairs, coordinating national anti-crisis measures, including the transition to results-based budgeting. She was actively involved in the EU enlargement process and membership negotiations with EU candidate countries. In 2018, she acted as EU High Level Advisor on Aid Coordination in Moldova. She currently works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia as National Coordinator of EU Macroregional Strategies. STAŠA MESEC <strong>EUSAIR</strong> Facility Point Project Manager, Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, Republic of Slovenia With the experience of living right next to the border and with her large family, Staša understands that the future is in our hands, depending on our ability to cooperate. In 2016 she accepted the challenge to lead the <strong>EUSAIR</strong> Facility Point project, which provides support to the operation of the strategy. Her vision is focused on activities that, with innovative, fresh ideas, contribute to trust both within the core team of the partnership and among all stakeholders in the region. By heart and profession, she is a geographer, a regional planner, and since 2002 she has been employed by the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy in various areas of development policies. MITJA BRICELJ Coordinator of the <strong>EUSAIR</strong> Pillar III Environmental Quality, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia Mitja Bricelj is a geographer who first tried journalistic waters. Due to his love of geography, he continued his career as a researcher at the Institute of Geography of the University of Ljubljana. He has been employed at the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning since 1990. From 1993 to 1997 he was Director of the Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Protection, a body within the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, and since 1993 he has been the national coordinator of the Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea from Pollution with Protocol (Barcelona Convention), which is the legal basis for implementing the Mediterrannean Action Plan (MAP/UNEP). He was also a member of its bureau in the period 2001- 2003. Among other things, he also performs the function of president of the Association of Geographical Societies of Slovenia and is the author and leader of the project Slovenia – Water Learning Path of Europe. IZTOK ŠKERLIČ Public Institute for the Promotion of Enterpreneurship and Development Projects of the Municipality of Izola, <strong>EUSAIR</strong> Facility Point Slovene Project Partner Iztok Škerlič has a master's degree in entrepreneurial sciences. He is directing all his energy through entrepreneurial projects into preserving both the cultural and natural heritage of the Slovene coast. He honed his talents at the University Research Center of Primorska, ran the Primorska Incubator for four years, and then continued his career in the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy of the Republic of Slovenia as head of the Joint Technical Secretariat for Cross-border Cooperation Programme between Slovenia and Italy. In 2016, he accepted the challenge of leading the Public Institute for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Development Projects of the Municipality of Izola, and today he is also acting as a Project Partner of the <strong>EUSAIR</strong> Facility Point. <strong>Final</strong> <strong>Report</strong> | 13
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