Speaker

Marko Štucin has worked as a career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2006. Initially, in the European Union Department, he was tasked with coordinating Slovenian positions at meetings of the European Council, the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the EU and working bodies in the field of the Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Between 2009 and 2013, he served at the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Berlin, where he was primarily responsible for European themes, and also non-residentially covered the Republic of Latvia. While working at the Embassy in Berlin, he also chaired the Diplomatic Association in Berlin (Diplomatischer Stammtisch Berlin). From 2013 to 2015, he served as Advisor to the Director-General for European Affairs and Bilateral Political Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 2015 to 2022, he served as Deputy Ambassador at the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in The Hague, where he was responsible for bilateral and multilateral affairs. In 2016, he was appointed Rapporteur by the Members of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court. In the same year, members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) elected him as a member of the Confidentiality Commission.