Ivan Svetlik, born 1950, is Professor of Human Resources at Ljubljana University, Slovenia.  He was vice rector of the University of Ljubljana (2005-2008), minister of labour, family and social affairs of Slovenia (2008-2012) and was a member of the editorial committee of the European Journal on Vocational Training edited by CEDEFOP. He has been involved in the country’s labour market and education and training reforms and gives advice in education and training reforms in the Balkan countries and in HRM in companies. His main research topics and interests are: work, employment, education, human resources, quality of life. He has co-operated in international networks and institutions, such as ETF, CEDEFOP and CRANET network on human resource management research. He published over 200 articles, book chapters and books.

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