Pavel Zgaga

Pavel Zgaga is professor emeritus at the University of Ljubljana. He has held several research fellowships and led or participated in a number of national and international research projects, mainly dealing with current issues of higher education, educational policy and reforms in the contemporary European context, and teacher education as a specific area of higher education. In the 1990s he was State Secretary for Higher Education (1992–1999) and Minister of Education and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia (1999–2000). After his return to academia, he was Dean of the Faculty of Education and co-founder of the Centre for Educational Policy Studies. In the early years of the Bologna Process, he served as the general rapporteur (2001-2003) for the Berlin Conference, as a member of the Board of the Bologna Follow-up Group (2004-2005) and as rapporteur of the BFUG working group on the external dimension of the Bologna Process (2006-2007). He has also worked with international organisations in his field, e.g. the Council of Europe, the European Commission, UNESCO, OECD, etc., and has been a consultant and invited speaker in a number of countries.