MILOŠ PAVLICA, STATE SECRETARY

Miloš Pavlica was born on 3 October 1950. A graduate lawyer, Mr Pavlica worked for over twenty years in the enterprise sector, where he was employed in the Iskra electronics business system. He was active in the area of planning, organisation, human resources and remuneration, as well as in administrative and political bodies of the Iskra company. He concluded his career at Iskra as the business secretary of Iskra Ltd.

In 1992, he was elected to the first composition of the Slovenian National Assembly. Afterwards, he worked as an advisor to the deputy group of the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD) in the National Assembly until 2004, when he was appointed vice-mayor of the Municipality of Ljubljana and performed his duties on a professional basis.

Mr Pavlica was also vice-president of the Slovenian Labour Party upon its establishment in 1991 and subsequently acted as its president for six years. In 1997, he was elected vice-president of the United List of Social Democrats and held this office for a period of eight years.  Currently, he still holds the office of president of the Labour Union of the Social Democrats and is a member of the core leadership of the Social Democrats.

He was first elected to the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Ljubljana in 1998. At present, he is discharging his duties as a municipal councillor in his third term of office.

Mr Pavlica has also held several offices in non-governmental organisations and supervisory bodies of companies and institutes.