Mateja Vraničar Erman (born 7 November 1965 in Ljubljana[citation needed]) is a Slovenian administrator who served as the Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Miro Cerar from 2016 until 2018.

[1][2] Vraničar Erman has a Master’s of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

[3] A legal expert, Vraničar Erman served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1993.

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.