Prof. Dr. Ivan Svetlik has been Secretary-General of the Rectors’ Forum of Southeast Europe and Western Balkans since 2024.
Prof. Dr. Ivan Svetlik is the pioneer of the human resources study in Slovenia. Since 1974 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. From 1993 to 1997 he was also the Dean of the same faculty. From 2005 to 2008, he was the Vice-Rector of the University of Ljubljana. He is the author of the first University of Ljubljana mission and the co-author of the first University of Ljubljana Strategy 2006-2009. He established the university system of tutoring, the university career center, and the University of Ljubljana Global Alumni and Associate Network and coordinated the second external EUA evaluation of the University of Ljubljana. He is the co-author of the University of Ljubljana Strategy 2012-2020 and of the evaluation study Bologna in Ljubljana. From 2008 to 2011, he was the minister for labor, family, and social affairs. He signed over 400 articles and books in Slovenian and other languages, mainly in the fields of education, employment, social policy, and human resources. From 2013 to 2017 he was the Rector of the University of Ljubljana. Currently, he is actively involved in the activities of the Rectors’ Forum of Southeast Europe and Western Balkans as a Secretary-General.