Milko Brezigar

Milko Brezigar (6 October 1886 – 22 April 1958) was a Slovene and Yugoslav liberal economist.

During World War I, Brezigar maintained close contacts with the Yugoslav Committee through his friend, the Slovene émigré Bogomil Vošnjak; together with Janko Hacin, Brezigar was among the organizers of a secret network which made espionage on behalf of the Entente against the Austro-Hungarian Empire[1] After the establishment of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in October 1918, he moved to Ljubljana.

In the same period, he joined the Yugoslav Democratic Party, and was elected member of the Temporary Representative Assembly.

In this period, he published his most important work, An Outline of the Slovenian National Economy (1918).

In 1920, he was named professor at the University of Ljubljana, where he was among the founders of the Slovenian economic science.