Her Excellency Mrs. Štefka Kucan Former First Lady of the Republic of Slovenia

Mrs. Štefanija (Štefka) Kucan was born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. She graduated from the Secondary School of Economy in Celje and studied literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. Mrs. Štefka Kucan worked in the Institute of International Scientific, Technical and Cultural Co-operation of the Government and in the Administration of the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia. Mrs. Kucan retired in 1995.

In 1964 she married Mr. Milan Kucan. They have two daughters. Their elder daughter Ana took her Master’s degree in landscape architecture at Harvard in 1992, and her PhD at the University of Ljubljana in 1996. The younger daughter Špela has taken a degree of ethnology, the Spanish language and hispanic literature at the University of Ljubljana.

Knowledge of foreign languages: English and French.

Fields of interest: social and humanitarian activities, education, arts and culture, ethnographic and ecological sciences.

Ljubljana, November 2007