About

Matjaž Gruden spent more than thirty years at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, in the Secretariat and the Parliamentary Assembly, most recently as Director for Democracy. Before that he was a diplomat at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at Slovenia’s Permanent Mission to the EU and NATO in Brussels.

His work focuses on European democracy, cultural policy, media freedom and civil society. Since April 2018 he has written a fortnightly column for the Slovenian daily Večer.