Jelko Kacin

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Jelko Kacin (born on 26 November 1955 in Celje, Styria) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is the president of Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, a member of the bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the EU–Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee, and for the delegations for relations with Iran, the Korean Peninsula, and the countries of south-east Europe.

[edit] Career

1980: Defence studies graduate, University of Ljubljana
1980: Trainee in the Municipality of Kranj
1981: Adviser on defence preparations in the Municipality of Kranj
1984: Adviser on defence training in the Municipality of Kranj
1988: Head of the municipal civil protection unit
1990: Deputy Republican Defence Secretary
1991: Republican Secretary/Minister for Information
1993: Defence Minister
1993: Marketing division, Adria Karavan, Novo mesto
1996: Member of the LDS council
1996: Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
1996: Member of the Defence Committee and the Constitutional Commission
2000: Member of the Slovenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
2000: Member of the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee
2000: Head of the national delegation to the IPU
2000: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia
2000: Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee
2000: Member of the Defence Committee and the European Affairs Commission
2002: Member of Kranj Municipal Council (1998)
2003: Observer in the European Parliament
2003: Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe
2003: Chairman of the LDS regional committee for Gorenjska
2003: Chairman of the Kranj committee of the LDS
2004: Member of the ALDE Bureau
2005: President of LDS