Ksenija Škrilec

Ksenija Škrilec (born August 26, 1966 in Murska Sobota ) is a Slovenian diplomat . She has been her country's ambassador to Austria since 2017 .

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Ksenija Škrilec was born on August 26, 1966. She attended the bilingual Drago-Lugarič School in Lendava and graduated from the Franc-Miklošič Art School in Ljutomer in 1985 . From 1985 to 1990 she completed a master's degree in Hungarian and German philology at the Eötvös-Loránd University in Budapest , with a semester abroad at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Between 1994 and 1997, Škrilec studied international relations and diplomacy at the Budapest Institute for Graduate International and Diplomatic Studies (BIGIS) at Corvinus University Budapest . In 2010 she received her PhD from Andrássy University .

After two years working for Translingua and Eurocom Corporate PR , Škrilec joined the diplomatic service in her home country in 1992. In Hungary she became the correspondent and assistant to the Ambassador Ferenc Hajós . As second and later first secretary, she was responsible for the areas of media, culture, minorities , training and protocol from 1998 . At that time the embassy was also responsible for Bulgaria , Ukraine and Moldova . As the first ministerial advisor , she moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002 , where she was a consultant for Austria in the department for neighboring countries . She coordinated the Slovenian-Austrian expert group of historians and lawyers and the contact committee Slovenia- Carinthia .

Škrilec returned to the Slovenian Embassy in Budapest in 2004. As an embassy counselor, she was responsible for the economic sector. In February 2006 she became the deputy of the ambassador Ladislav Lipič . From June to September 2007 and December 2008 to May 2009 officiated Škrilec as Chargé . Afterwards, in 2010 she became the project manager of the business delegations of the President and Prime Minister in the Department of Economic Diplomacy in the Ministry. The following year, she was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and headed the Global Challenges Division. Her tasks included the national coordination of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Slovenian participation in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20). She participated in the 2012 UN climate conference in Doha .

Ksenija Škrilec was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to Hungary in 2013. The following year it received accreditation for Bulgaria based in Budapest. In September 2017, Škrilec moved to Vienna and was accredited as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the Republic of Austria.

Škrilec speaks Slovenian and Hungarian as mother tongue as well as German, English, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish .

Private life

Ksenija Škrilec is married and has two grown children.

Publications

• Co-editor with Dušan Nećak, Boris Jesih, Božo Repe, Peter Vodopivec: Slovensko-avstrijski odnosi v 20. stoletju. Slovenian-Austrian Relations in the 20th Century. Historia 8. Oddelek za zgodovino Filozofske fakultete, Ljubljana 2004.

Web links

• Ksenija Škrilec. (CV on the website of the embassy in Vienna)

literature

• Tibor Tomka: Egymás köztudatában kellene magasabb szintre lépnünk. A lendvai származású Ksenija Škrilec megközelítőleg fél esztendeje a Szlovén Köztársaság magyarországi nagykövete. Nagyköveti interjú. (Interview with Ksenija Škrilec, Hungarian) 2014.
• Dušan Mukič: Delo z mladimi se mi zdi ključno. (Interview with Ksenija Škrilec, Slovenian) 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ksenija Škrilec. (English, curriculum vitae on the embassy website, accessed on May 16, 2020)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ksenija Škrilec. (Curriculum vitae on the embassy website, accessed on May 16, 2020)

predecessor	Office	successor
Darja Bavdaž Kuret	Ambassador of Slovenia to Hungary 2013–2017	Robert Kokalj
Darja Bavdaž Kuret	Ambassador of Slovenia to Bulgaria 2014–2017	Robert Kokalj (until 2018)
Andrej Rahten	Ambassador of Slovenia to Austria since 2017