Gregor Golobič

Gregor Golobič
Gregor Golobič on May 8, 2010
Personal details
Born	(1964-01-20) January 20, 1964 (age 53) Novo Mesto, Socialist Republic of Slovenia, Yugoslavia
Political party	Zares

Gregor Golobič (born January 20, 1964) is a Slovenian politician. Between 2007 and 2012 he was president of the left liberal party Zares and between November 2008 and June 2011, he served as Minister for Science and Higher Education of Slovenia.

Golobič was born in the Slovenian town of Novo Mesto, then in former Yugoslavia. He attended the Novo Mesto Grammar School. He enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied philosophy. In 1988, already as a student, he became employed by the Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia, the youth organization of the League of Communists of Slovenia. Between 1992 and 2001, he served as the Secretary-General of the ruling Liberal Democracy of Slovenia.

In 2001 Golobič left politics. In 2002 he obtained his BA in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana with a thesis on a Lacanian critique of the philosophy of Cratylus. In 2006 he quit his former party and in October 2007, he was elected president of the newly formed party Zares, formed mostly by former members of the Liberal Democracy. In the 2008 parliamentary elections he was elected in the Slovenian National Assembly. In November of the same year, he was appointed Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology in the centre left government of Borut Pahor. At the ministry, József Györkös served as a state secretary.