Mojca Kleva Explained

Mojca Kleva
Order:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:May 9 2011
Term End:30 June 2014
Order2:Permanent Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Parliament
Term Start2:2009
Term End2:2011
Order3:Advisor for the Enlargement of the European Union in the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Term Start3:2002
Term End3:2002
Order4:Member of Municipal Council of Koper
Term Start4:1999
Term End4:2009
Birth Place:Koper, SR Slovenija, Yugoslavia
Party:Social Democrats (Slovenia)
Otherparty:Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Alma Mater:Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana

Mojca Kleva (born March 30, 1976) is a Slovene political scientist and politician born in Koper (Slovenia). On May 9 2011 she became a Member of the European Parliament replacing Zoran Thaler who resigned from the position due to accusations regarding corruption.[1] She is a member of Social Democrats, center-left wing political party in Slovenia.

Biography

Mojca Kleva graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in political science in 2002 and later acquired master's degree also in political science in 2006.

After her studies Kleva was following the EU accession process of Estonia and Lithuania at the European Parliament in Brussels. In 2004 she returned to Slovenia where she became an advisor in the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, working on areas of European affairs, human rights and education. In 2009 she became a permanent representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Parliament in Brussels. In May 2011 Mojca Kleva replaced Zoran Thaler as a member of the European Parliament within S&D (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats).

Between 1999 and 2009 Mojca Kleva was a member Municipal Council of Koper, she also actively participated and led network of non-governmental organizations from the field of women's rights - Women's lobby Slovenia between 2007 and 2009.

Member of the European Parliament

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Notes and References

  1. http://dnevnik.si/novice/eu/1042432266 Dnevnik.si - Zoran Thaler je odstopil z mesta evropskega poslanca