Director General

The Director General is elected by the Assembly for a term of four years and may be re-elected for another term. DG's deputies are elected by the Council for a term of three years.

The current Interim Administrator (Acting Director General) of ICPE is Ambassador Andrej Logar. He was elected by the ICPE Assembly in its 20^th session and assumed office on 15 May 2019 for a period of one year, until the election of Director General.

Ambassador Andrej Logar

Date and place of birth: 28 January 1951, Maribor

Education: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Foreign languages: English, French, Croatian, Serbian

Work experience:

2017: State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2013-2017: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations in New York,

• chaired the UN General Assembly Second Committee,

• facilitated drafting of final document for the 1st World Conference on Indigenous Peoples,

• facilitated aligning of daily agenda of UN bodies with final documents, adopted in the last two years

2010-2013: Head of Department for International Organisations at Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2005-2010: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the UN Office and other International Organisations in Geneva,

• chaired the UN Social Forum,

• Vice President of the UN Human Rights Council,

• chaired the Working Group for Accession of Montenegro to the World Trade Organisation,

• Honorary Dean at Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

2005-2010: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the World Trade Organisation

2005-2010: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva

2004-2005: Director-General for EU Affairs and Bilateral Political Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2003-2004: State Secretary for EU Affairs and Bilateral Political Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• head of several task forces at MFA,

• head and coordinator of inter-ministerial working groups,

• head of working group for preparations for the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the EU

1999-2003: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to Denmark, Norway, Lithuania and Iceland 1998-99: Acting Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1997-98: State Undersecretary, Head of Minister's Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1997: Head of Department for Neighbouring States, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1993-97: Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the UN Office in Geneva

1991-1993: Head of Minister's Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1991: Counsellor of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia at Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1987-1990: Consul at the Consulate General of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Gothenburg, Sweden

Former ICPE Directors-General

Mr Janez Podobnik, MD (2012 - 2015)*

Mr Štefan Bogdan Šalej (2009 - 2012)

Mr Peter Volasko (2008 - 2009)*

Mr Priyadarshi Thakur (2006 - 2008)

Mr Benjamin Lukman, PhD (2002 - 2006)

Mr C.K. Modi

Mr V.K. Dar**

Mr Žiga Vodušek, PhD**

*Acting Director General

** Executive Director