Tamara Weingerl Požar

Tamara Weingerl Požar assumed the role of State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs on 16 June 2026.

She has over 25 years of professional experience in EU and international affairs, including EU enlargement, general affairs and energy policies.

From autumn 2022 to June 2026, she served as Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Cyprus.

She worked in Brussels at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the EU for over 11 years. She played a part during both Slovenian presidencies of the Council of the EU, in 2008 and 2021. From 2018 to 2022 she served as Ambassador – Deputy Permanent Representative (Coreper I – Permanent Representatives Committee I), chairing Coreper I during the 2021 Slovenian EU Council Presidency. From 2006 to 2012, she was a Counsellor at the EU Council Working Party on Enlargement. During the 2008 Slovenian EU Council Presidency she chaired three working parties: on enlargement, on the follow-up to the Council Conclusions on Cyprus, and on the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria and Romania.

From 2013 to 2018, she was the Energy Coordinator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia in Ljubljana.

Her career path started in 1999 at the Government Office for European Affairs, where she was Head of the Department for EU Coordination II from 2003 to 2006.

State Secretary Weingerl Požar holds a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science – International Relations from the University of Ljubljana. In addition to her native Slovene, she is fluent in Italian, English, French and Croatian and she has a basic knowledge of German, Greek and Russian.

She was born in Koper in 1973. She is married with two children.