Expert service
The expert service of the ombudsman carries out all the experts tasks for the ombudsman and the deputy ombudsmen by area of responsibility of the ombudsman, classifies initiatives, deals with initiatives, prepares opinions, proposals and recommendations, carries out investigative activities, compiles the ombudsman's reports on findings in connection with initiatives, and provides initiators with information concerning their initiatives. The expert service of the ombudsman also carries out administrative, technical, informational and other tasks in connection with initiatives.
Gašper Adamič - LLB, Adviser
Fields of work: ethics of public statement language, assembly and association, voting right, protection of personal data and privacy, access to information of public character, mechanisms of protection against discrimination, national and ethnic minorities, aliens and applicants for international protection.
Nataša Bratož - LLB, Senior Adviser
Fields of work: illegal migrants and asylum seekers, pre-litigation procedures, criminal proceedings, civil procedures and relationships, procedures before the labour and social courts, administrative court procedures
Zlata Debevec - LLB, Senior Adviser
Fields of work: citizenship, aliens, denationalisation, property law affairs, administrative procedures, intervention in the environment, spatial planning, communal economy, communications, energy, transport, concessions, housing relationships, housing economy, redress of injustice
Robert Gačnik – BSc (criminal investigation and security), specialist in criminal investigation, Adviser
Fields of work: security services, detainees, prisoners, persons under police apprehension, police procedures, offences, tasks related to the Optional Protocol
Liana Kalčina, BA (Education), Ombudsman’s Adviser for International Relations, Publishing, Analysis and Surveys
Fields of work: international relationship, analysis, editing publications
Mag. Jure Markič – LLM, LLB, Senior Adviser
Fields of work: psychiatric patients, persons in social care institutions, youth homes, civil procedures and relationships, procedures before the labour and social courts, administrative court procedures, attorneyship and notariat, tasks related to the Optional Protocol
Jožica Matjašič, Adviser I
Fields of work: administrative procedures, interventions in the environment, spatial planning
Martina Ocepek – LLB, Senior Adviser
Fields of work: denationalisation, property law issues, taxes, customs, administrative procedures, interventions in the environment, spatial planning
Živan Rejc - LLB, Senior Adviser
Fields of work: security services, voting right, personal data protection, communal economy, communications, energy, transport, concessions, housing relationships, housing economy
Dr. Ingrid Russi Zagožen – PhD in psychology, Adviser
Fields of work: social allowances and support, social services, institutional protection, poverty – general, violence – anywhere, personal problems, psychiatric patients, persons in social care institutions, youth homes, tasks related to the Optional Protocol
Andreja Srebotnik - LLB, Senior Adviser
Field of work: pre-litigation procedures, criminal procedures, offences, detainees, prisoners, persons under police apprehension, civil procedures and relationships, illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, tasks related to the Optional Protocol
Mag. Simona Šemen – BSc (theology), MSc (Anthropology), specialist
Fields of work: health care, health insurance, social care
Mojca Valjavec - LLB, Adviser III.
Field of work: freedom of conscience, ethics of public expression, national and ethnic minorities, equal employment opportunities, copies for information, anonymous applications, children of minorities and groups at risk, social activities (culture, sport), redress of injustice
Neva Šturm - LLB, Adviser
Fields of work: health insurance, health care, pension insurance, disability insurance, labour relationship, civil servants, scholarships, unemployment, citizenship, aliens, social activities (culture, sport)
Jasna Vunduk – BSc (Social Pedagogy), Adviser I
Fields of work: protection of children’s rights and the rights of the elderly
Brigita Urh – BSc (remedial teacher – speech therapist, the Ombudsman’s Adviser
Fields of work: foster care, guardianship, institutional care, children with special needs, family violence against children, non-family violence against children, civil servants, scholarships, poverty – general, violence – anywhere, unemployment, social activities (schooling)
Lan Vošnjak - LLB, Senior Adviser
Fields of work: protection of children’s rights, labour relationships