Tadej Slapnik

State Secretary, Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia

For years he has been instrumental in starting and launching several social enterprises, worker cooperatives and several other initiatives of social entrepreneurships in Slovenia. He collaborated in the preparation of the national Strategy for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship 2013-16 and the plan for its execution. He is the founder and secretary general of the internationally operating Slovenian Forum of Social Entrepreneurship. He also follows the development of various initiatives in the field of youth entrepreneurship and other vulnerable social groups. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor.