President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012
Danilo Türk was the President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012, serving as the country's head of state during that five-year period. As president of a European Union member nation, his role involved representing Slovenia domestically and internationally during a significant time in the country's modern history.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Top works
via Open Library + Wikidata
5 total works indexed
Danilo Türk ( pronounced [daˈníːlɔ ˈtýɾk]; born 19 February 1952) is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. He was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005.
Türk is a visiting professor of international law at Columbia University in New York City, a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, and non-resident senior fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He is the founder of the Danilo Türk Foundation, devoted mostly to the rehabilitation of child victims of armed conflict. Türk is also the chairman of the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace and the chairman of the board of the Global Fairness Initiative, a Washington, D.C.–based NGO dedicated to economic and social development in developing nations.
· 2021 · cited 5,548x
· 2020 · cited 4,254x
· 2024 · cited 2,722x
via Crossref · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).