Gregor Virant

Gregor Virant (born 4 December 1969) is a Slovenian politician and public servant. He is currently Minister of Public Administration in the centre-right government led by Janez Janša.

He was born in Ljubljana. He studied law at the University of Ljubljana and at the Glasgow Caledonian University. Between 1995 and 1999, he worked as a legal advisor to the Constitutional Court of Slovenia. In 2000, he was appointed secretary-general at the Ministry of Interior in the short lived centre-right government of Andrej Bajuk. He remained in office also during the centre-left governments of Janez Drnovšek and Anton Rop. He resigned from office shortly before the 2004 parliamentary elections, in which he ran as a candidate for the Slovenian National Assembly on the list of the Slovenian Democratic Party.

After the electroal victory of the Slovenian Democratic Party in 2004, Virant became the head of the newly created Ministry of Public Administration in the government led by Janez Janša. He launched a thorough reform of the public service in Slovenia, which included the modernization and rationalization of the service. Virant has been ranking as the most popular minister in Janša's government and one of the most popular politicians in Slovenia. [http://www.dnevnik.si/novice/aktualne_zgodbe/328566]

He is married and has two sons. His is the son-in-law of the politician Miha Brejc, and brother-in-law of the photographer Tomo Brejc.

See also

*Politics of Slovenia

Sources

* [http://www.ukom.gov.si/slo/vlada/ministri/javna-uprava/ Profile on the Slovenian Government website]
* [http://www.megovconf-lisbon.gov.pt/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=55 Profile on the site of the Governmental Conference in Lisbon, September 2007]

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