[3] In October 2020, Damijan was put forth by four left-of-centre opposition parties as a prospective consensus prime ministerial candidate for a proposed technocratic government after Damijan and a group of prominent Slovene civil society figures proposed it to parliamentary parties as an alternative to the controversial Third Janša Government, a political project they termed The Coalition of the Constitutional Arch.
[5] Damijan attended elementary school in the nearby town of Lomanoše and lived with his grandparents during his early childhood until his mother could build her own house.
[2] He obtained a master's degree in 1995 with the dissertation An Analysis of Economic Characteristics of Small Countries in World Markets, which was published as a book the following year.
[3] In 2018, Damijan was put forward as a prospective candidate for the position of governor of the Bank of Slovenia, with the backing of left-of-centre political parties.
He has also worked on international research and consultancy projects funded by the European Commission, World Bank, the United Nations, and OECD.
[7] Damijan resigned from his ministerial post in March 2006 - only 3 months after assuming the position - citing personal reasons.
[8] Damijan later revealed that he resigned because he grew disillusioned by what he saw as a kleptocratic administration, using their official functions as a "smokescreen" for personal enrichment with the aim of "never having to work again in their lives".
[3] In October 2020, Damijan presented the representatives of parliamentary opposition parties with an initiative drafted by himself (and a number of prominent members of the Slovene civil society, including Spomenka Hribar, Pavel Gantar, Boris A. Novak, and Slavoj Žižek).
The initiative called on political actors to intervene to halt what they see as an irrevocable drift towards illiberal democracy underway under PM Janša's stewardship of the state.
[3] Damijan has questioned the initial wisdom of introducing, and the long-term feasibility of maintaining, the Eurozone (at least in its present configuration), at times advocating abandoning the Euro altogether.