Gregor Virant
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Gregor Virant | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 20 March 2013 – 18 September 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Vinko Gorenak |
| Succeeded by | Vesna Györkös Žnidar |
| Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia | |
| In office 21 December 2011 – 28 January 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Ljubo Germič |
| Succeeded by | Jakob Presečnik (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 December 1969 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Party | Independent (2014–present) Civic List (2011–2014) SDS (2004–2011) |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
| Profession | Lawyer, public servant, politician |
Gregor Virant (born 4 December 1969) is a Slovenian politician and public servant. Between 2004 and 2008, he served as Minister of Public Administration in Janez Janša's first government, between 2011–2013 he was Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia. He also served as Minister of the Interior and Public Administration in the government of Alenka Bratušek between 2013 and 2014.
He was the leader (October 2011 – May 2014) of the Civic List, until April 2012 named Gregor Virant's Civic List, a liberal political party established in October 2011 to compete in the 2011 parliamentary election.
Since September 2019 he serves as head of Programme SIGMA, the joint initiative of the OECD and the European Union to provide support for improvement in governance and management to UE candidates and other countries in the area of influence.
Virant was born in Ljubljana. He studied law at the University of Ljubljana and at Glasgow Caledonian University. Between 1995 and 1999, he worked as a legal adviser to the Constitutional Court of Slovenia. He resides in Domžale.
Public servant career
In 2000, he was appointed secretary-general at the Ministry of Interior (led by Peter Jambrek) in the short lived centre-right government of Andrej Bajuk. He also remained in office during the centre-left governments of Janez Drnovšek and Anton Rop. During that period, he was one of the authors of the reform of public administration, introducing professionalism in public servant posts.[1]
