Mr. Blaž GOLOB is a founding Director of the Centre for eGovernance Development for South East Europe, established during the Slovenian EU Presidency in May 2008. Centre is a Public Private Partnership composed by Government of the Republic of Slovenia, Regional Cooperation Council RCC (former Stability Pact), UNDP, European Foundation for eGovernment-Spain, INA Academy-Greece, Microsoft, Siemens-Austria and SRC.SI private company. The CeGDs vision is to achieve the successful development of Information Society in SEE that will contribute to the future development of European continent.
Mr. Golob is the president of the Bled Forum on Europe (
www.bled-forum.org) Research Association which organises every year an international conference on future challenges and responses of European Union. Mr. Golob is a member of the Planning Committee of the Millennium Project (
www.millennium-project.org), Chair of the Millennium Project Node in Slovenia and a member of the Business Advisory Council for South Eastern Europe.
Mr. Golob’s fields of expertises are European affairs, foresight (futures studies), policy making (governance) and law. He made his specialisation on European Law at Cambridge University and continued his PhD studies in political science at University of Ljubljana.
During his professional career he worked as an editor for business and legal magazines GV publishing house in Ljubljana (1993-1996), as a president of international NGO in Brussels (1996) and as high level official (Undersecretary) for various ministries of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and Slovenian Research Agency (1997-2008). Between 2000 and 2003 Mr. Golob worked for the European Commission Joint Research Centre IPTS (
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/) in Seville. He was a member of the Commission’s Enlargement Futures team. He is an author of the European Commission research-report on; S&T Institutions and S&T Policies in the EU Acceding Countries; Challenges for the Development of the Knowledge Based Economy (EC 2004).