Tanja Štumberger, Executive Director, tanja@svetilnik-slovenija.org
Tanja envisioned and launched the Liberty Seminars in 2008, and has been its executive director ever since. Tanja is a senior fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Washington, DC, USA and a teaching fellow at The Fund for American Studies program in Prague, Czech Republic. She also serves on Globalization Institute scientific board (Poland) and The Fund for American Studies alumni council (USA). From January 2006 to December 2011, Tanja was both research associate and manager of external relations at the Cato Institute, a leading libertarian think tank in the world. She is a co-author of the Human Freedom Index, first global index measuring human freedom consistent with a classical liberal approach. As an undergraduate, Tanja studied Applied Economics at both University of Maribor, Slovenia, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She did her graduate studies in American Political Thought at both the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Georgetown University, USA.
Catinca Hanganu, Liberty Camp Program Manager, catinca.hanganu@yahoo.com
Catinca joined the Liberty Seminars as Program Manager in 2011. Additionally, she interned for New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform, a Brussels-based think-tank between January-July 2012. Before that, she has interned for the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC in the spring of 2011. A dedicated participant in many pro-liberty seminars, she took part in the inaugural Liberty Seminars in 2008. Her main interests are intellectual property rights and restitution theories of criminal justice. Catinca is a native Romanian. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Bucharest, Romania.
Lovro Jurgec, Liberty Academy Program Manager, lovro@svetilnik-slovenija.org
Lovro joined the Liberty Seminars in 2012. He is a proud member of Slovenian libertarian think tank Svetilnik (Lighthouse), where he serves as a director of development. Lovro discovered classical liberalism in high school, when he came across Robert Nozick's book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia", which changed his life. In 2009 he won the first prize at the Slovenian national competition in philosophy for high schools. Lovro is an alumnus of the 2009 Liberty Seminars in Slovenia. He holds a B.A. in Law from the University Maribor, Slovenia, where he is currently a graduate student.
Primož Kocuvan, Logistics Manager
Milutin Pavičević, Website Manager
