Igor Lukšič (born 3 December 1961) is a Slovenianpolitical scientist, politician and was president of the Slovenian Social Democrats (June 2012 – May 2014). Between November 2008 and February 2012, he served as minister of education in the center-left government of Borut Pahor.
Lukšič was born in Novo Mesto in the People's Republic of Slovenia, then part of FPR Yugoslavia. He started his academic career as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana in 1986 and obtained his PhD at the University of Ljubljana in 1993. Subsequently, he became an assistant professor and later, in 1998, an associate professor. In 1999, he was named vice-dean and in 2001, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana.[1] Between 2008 and 2011, he worked as the minister of education and sport.
He was the vice president of Social Democrats until March 2009. Later, on 2 June 2012, he was elected president of the Social Democrats,[2] but stepped down in 2014, after his party won only one MEP seat in European Parliament election.[3]
