Milan Zver
| Milan Zver | |
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| Minister of Education and Sports | |
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In office 3 December 2004 – 21 November 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Janez Janša |
| Preceded by | Slavko Gaber |
| Succeeded by | Igor Lukšič |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 May 1962 Ljubljana, FPR Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Political party | Slovenian Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Ljubljana University of Graz |
Milan Zver (born 25 May 1962) is a Slovenian politician, sociologist and political scientist who serves as vice-president of the Slovenian Democratic Party. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the Minister of Education and Sports in Janez Janša's centre-right government. In the 2009 European elections, he received the highest number of preferential votes in Slovenia, and was subsequently elected to the European Parliament.
He is a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.
Zver was born in Ljubljana, FPR Yugoslavia, but spent most of his childhood in the village of Destrnik in the eastern Slovenian region of Styria. After finishing high school in Ptuj, he enrolled in the University of Ljubljana, where he studied sociology and political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He graduated in 1987 and continued his studies at the University of Graz under the supervision of the scholar Horst Haselsteiner. He obtained his MA in 1990, but in 1992 he left the research work at the university and decided to undertake public service in Slovenia instead. A member of Slovenian Social Democratic Party since 1990, Zver served as advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister Jože Pučnik and later to the Minister of Defence Janez Janša. After the Social Democratic Party left Janez Drnovšek's coalition government in 1994, Zver served as a secretary of the Municipal Council of Ljubljana until 1999, and later as an advisor to the parliamentary group of the Slovenian Social Democratic Party (now known as the Slovenian Democratic Party) in the National Assembly of Slovenia. From 2002 to 2004, he served as member of the Municipal Council of Ljubljana.
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