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Maja Pucelj is an assistant professor and Head of research at EMUNI. She graduated from the Faculty of Public Administration in Ljubljana and the Faculty of Management in Koper, with a master's degree from the Faculty of Government and European Studies at the New University and the European Faculty of Law. She completed her first doctorate degree at Alma Mater Europaea - ISH in the humanities and her second doctorate degree at the Faculty of Government and European Studies of the New University in the field of international studies with an emphasis on human rights. She began her career as a police officer, where she was a member of a special police unit, continuing her career path as a risk manager, head of the legal department in the field of leasing and banking, as a director of marketing in the economy and as an auditor in an audit company. Prior to joining EMUNI and FOŠ, she worked as an advisor to the Minister of Education, Science and Sport in the field of pre-school education, primary education, secondary and higher education, adult education, and the quality of education and as an undersecretary in the Service for the Implementation of Cohesion Policy at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. She teached or co-teached the following courses: Fundamentals of Law in Organizational Studies, Organizational Behaviour and Seminar for Doctoral Dissertation. In 2024 she received reward from Slovenian Ombudsman for the best PhD research in the field of human rights in Slovenia. In the same year she also finished International Post-doctoral programme in Globalisation and Human rights in Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research. Her research interest focuses on human rights, law, social responsibility and gender equality.
