Marjan Šetinc

Who is Marjan Šetinc?

Marjan Šetinc is a former member of the Parliament of Slovenia and a former ambassador to the Court of St. James's, now working as ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia on multilateral economic policy matters. He is married and has two children.

In 1968 he passed his A-levels at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK, an international sixth form college. He graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of Ljubljana University in 1973 and obtained master's degree in social psychology at London School of Economics in 1977.

From 1974 to 1992 he worked as a full-time social science researcher, first with the Slovene Trade Unions Association and from 1980 onwards with the Educational Research Institute of Ljubljana University. Research of social processes led him into political activities of the Socialist Youth Party which became the core of Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, the strongest political party in Slovenia between 1992 to 2004. In the Youth Party he participated in some key activities to prevent hegemonic educational tendencies of the former federal state of Yugoslavia. He was elected an LDS MP in 1992 in his home town Brežice. In the Parliament he acted as a member of three select committees and as a Chairman of the EU Select Committee.