Igor Lukšič

Not to be confused with Igor Lukšić.
Igor Lukšič
Minister for Education and Sports
In office
21 November 2008  10 February 2012
Prime Minister Borut Pahor
Preceded by Milan Zver
Succeeded by Žiga Turk
Personal details
Born (1970-03-31) 31 March 1970
Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia
(now Slovenia)
Political party Social Democrats
Alma mater University of Ljubljana

Igor Lukšič (born 3 December 1961) is a Slovenian political scientist, politician and was president of the Slovenian Social Democrats (June 2012–May 2014). Between November 2008 and February 2012, he served as Minister of Education in the center-left government of Borut Pahor.

Lukšič was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, then part of former Yugoslavia. He obtained his PhD at the University of Ljubljana in 1993. He started his academic career as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana in 1986. Subsequently, he became Assistant Professor in 1993 and Associate Professor in 1998. In 1999 he became vice dean and in 2001 dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana.[1] Currently he works as a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana; between 2008 and 2011 he was a minister of Education and Sport. Until 22 March 2009 he was a vice president of Social Democrats in Slovenia.

On 2 June 2012 he was elected president of the Slovenian Social Democrats.[2] After his party won only one MEP seat in European Parliament election, he resigned as party president.[3]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Milan Zver
Minister for Education and Sports
2008–2012
Succeeded by
Žiga Turk
Party political offices
Preceded by
Borut Pahor
Leader of the Social Democrats
2012–2014
Succeeded by
Dejan Židan
Acting
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