Marjan Å etinc

Marjan Šetinc ( born May 15, 1949 in Brežice, Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian educationist, politician and ambassador of his country, inter alia, in London and Warsaw.

Life

After graduating from the Atlantic College, an international school in Wales, graduated Marjan Šetinc 1973 at the University of Ljubljana. He worked from 1974 to 1980 as a researcher at the Public Opinion Research Centre of the Federation of Trade Unions of Slovenia and received his master's degree in 1977 from the London School of Economics. He then worked from 1980 at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, where he was Gründungsheraugeber of the International Journal for Theory and Research in Education.

From 1992 to 1996 Marjan Šetinc was a member of the national parliament in Slovenia for the Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia. He was chairman of the Task Force to work with the British Parliament and the Committee on European Union Affairs. After that, he was from 1997 to 2002 Slovenian ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Back in Slovenia, he was from 2002 to 2006 as Ambassador, Head of the Department for International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian support in the Foreign Ministry. From 2006 to 2009 he was then responsible in the State Department as an ambassador for multilateral economic organizations and the Slovenian accession to the OECD. Since 31 July 2009, he is Slovenian ambassador in Poland.

Marjan Šetinc is married to Marta Šetinc and has a daughter and a son.

Writings

  • International Comparative Studies of Science Achievement from the Time Perspective: the Third International Mathematics and Science Study versus the International Assessment of Educational Progress. In: Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice. 6, No. 1, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxford. 1999, ISSN 0969 - 594x.
  • Mojca Štraus Marjan Šetinc: The Slovenian context of computers in education. In: Tj Plomp, Ronald Aberdeen Anderson, Georgia Kontogiannopoulou - Polydorides (eds.): Cross national policies and practices on computers in education. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1996, ISBN 0-7923-4217-8, pp. 381-396.
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