Andrej Slapničar, Ambassador

Andrej Slapničar was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of Poland in September 2026.

He holds a university degree in law and has attended courses at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague, and the European Security and Defence College in Brussels.

He joined the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs in 1995, devoting most of his career to security policy. From 2013 to 2015 and again from 2023 to 2026, he headed the Ministry’s Department for Security Policy.

In the period from 2000 to 2004, he served at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to NATO in Brussels, and from 2004 to 2006, at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the OSCE in Vienna.

In 2015, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to the French Republic and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, as well as non-resident Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco and the Principality of Monaco. Between 2019 and 2023, he was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Throughout his career, he has played an active role in several major Slovenian foreign policy projects, including Slovenia’s accession to NATO, OSCE Chairmanship in 2005 and the Slovenian EU Council presidencies in 2008 and 2021.

Ambassador Andrej Slapničar has extensive experience in bilateral relations and in leading and participating in international conferences, working groups, seminars, negotiations and consultations within the framework of the UN, the EU, NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, La Francophonie and other international forums. He has also served as a member of the Managing Board of the ITF Enhancing Human Security.

In addition to his native Slovene, he is fluent in English and French and has a basic command of German and Polish.

Born in Ljubljana on 21 March 1970, he is a married father of three.