Dr. Emil Erjavec, head of Governing Board of University of Ljubljana Slovenia (UL) is Full professor of Agricultural Policy and Economics at the Biotechnical Faculty, and President of the University Ljubljana Managerial Board. Between 2002-2018 he was lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. He is former dean (2018-2020) and between 2010-2014 and 2016-2018, 2020-2021 vicedean of Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana. For the period 2016-2018, he was the Chairman of Council for agriculture and rural development of the Republic of Slovenia. His research expertise covers various aspects of agricultural economics, and he has published over 70 research papers pertaining to national and European agricultural policy, transition and EU integration studies, agricultural sector modelling and political economy analysis. He has assumed numerous coordinating positions in national and international research efforts. In the years 1998-2004, he participated in the talks preceding EU accession as a member of Slovenia’s core negotiations team responsible for agriculture. Since 2003, he has been engaged as counsellor in negotiations related to the European Union’s periodic financial perspectives and CAP reforms. He has also been invited to share his knowledge and experience as policy and rural development analyst to the FAO, OECD, European Commission and European Parliament, as well as to the governments of all Western Balkan countries. Between 2008 and 2014, he was a Board member of the European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) and between 2008 and 2013 he was president of the Slovenian Association of Agricultural Economics. For his cooperation efforts, he is getting honourable Doctor degree from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.