Matjaž Šinkovec

Matjaž Šinkovec (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈmáːtjaʃ ˈʃìːŋkɔʋəts];[1] born on 22 May 1951) is a Slovenian diplomat, politician, translator, journalist and science fiction writer.

Šinkovec was born in a middle class family in Ljubljana, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

He attended the Poljane Grammar School in Ljubljana, where he was also classmate of the later historian and politician Vasko Simoniti.

Between 1991 and 1992, he was the chief negotiator for independent Slovenia on the International Conference on former Yugoslavia led by lord Carrington.

In April 2006, he was appointed as the head of the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency (Slovene: Slovenska obveščevalno-varnostna agencija).