General Secretary

Alenka Jerše

tel.: +386 1 230 97 30

e-mail: alenka jerse

Alenka Jerše was born in 1976 in Ljubljana. After finishing Bežigrad Gymnasium she continued her studies at Faculty of Law at University of Ljubljana where she graduated “cum laude” in 2005 under mentorship of prof. dr. Borut  Bohte with the thesis “International legal regulation of control of production, transfers and trade in small arms and light weapons and implementation of international standards in the Republic of Slovenia”.

During her studies she has been working as a journalist from 1998 until 2000 at Slovene press agency and writing articles for the Bulletin of Amnesty International Slovenia. From 2000 she worked for Amnesty International Slovenia first as head of campaign and media projects and from December 2005 as acting secretary general. She joined the Commissioner in March 2007.

Occasionally she is translating different publications between English and Slovene.

She speaks English, Serbian, Croatian, German and French.