Mateja Vraničar Erman


Mateja Vraničar Erman is a Slovenian administrator who served as the Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Miro Cerar from 2016 until 2018.

Education

Vraničar Erman has a Master’s of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She also holds a degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana.

Career

A legal expert, Vraničar Erman served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1993.
Vraničar Erman has worked at the finance ministry since 1993. She served as State Secretary from April 2010 to February 2012.
On 21 September 2016, the Slovenian Parliament voted 50-21 to confirm Vraničar Erman as the country’s first female finance minister, succeeding Dušan Mramor. She is not politically affiliated but was proposed by Prime Minister of Slovenia Miro Cerar’s Modern Centre Party.

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