Alenka Jerak is a career diplomat with many years of experience in various fields at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and abroad. She has worked as a plenipotentiary minister and deputy ambassador to Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, and has served in Croatia and Canada.

She holds a Law Degree from School of Law, University of Ljubljana.

Foreign languages: English, German, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian and Dutch. 

She is married and has two children.