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Dr Tea Petrin
Dr. Tea Petrin has just moved back to the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia after serving for several years as the ambassador of Slovenia to the Netherlands and at present is initiating meetings between the Dutch cluster on life science and the Slovenian cluster on biotechnology and pharmacy, with the aim of developing cooperation ties between the two.
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She has a Master's degree's from Louisiana State University in New Orleans and a doctorate in economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. She is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics,University of Ljubljana and has been a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Haas School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley. She has also been a Fullbright professor at the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley and at the Centre for Industrial Competitiveness,University of Massachusetts Lowell. Moreover she has been a guest lecturer at 18 universities in the United States, Europe and Japan.
She has been Slovenia's representative on the European Small Business Council and a member of the Slovenian Government's Economic Council and moreover she is a member of the International Small Business Council and the European Association for Industrial Economics Research.
She has headed more than 30 research projects in areas such as market structure and industrial organisation, competitiveness, entrepreneurship, company restructuring and industrial policy. Her bibliography includes over 200 publications on industrial policy, competition policy, company restructuring and entrepreneurship.
In Slovenia and Yugoslavia her papers and major works represent the very foundation of studies on small business and entrepreneurship and on active industrial policy focusing on company restructuring, networking and co-operation between the business sector, universities and government. As an expert in economics, she was an external advisor to the Slovenian Committee for Small Business Development advisor to the Slovenian Government (1992-93) on real sector restructuring. She advised the FAO Regional Office for Europe on the development of rural enterprise projects. Moreover she cooperated with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in assessing the financial potential of new entrepreneurs in Slovenia and on the development of the conceptual framework for the Slovenian Agency for Restructuring and the Privatisation Fund. Later she went on to cooperate on various projects for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the FAO Investment Centre, UNDP/UNIDO and with the Enterprise Aspects of Enlargement Unit at the European Commission's Enterprise GD (2000). Since 2002 she has been a member of the Board of Advisors of TCI -a network of experts on business cluster development. She was Minister for Economic Affairs within the Slovenian Government; since January 2001 she had held the post of Minister of the Economy.