Tea Petrin

Tea Petrin
Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands
In office
2004–2008
Prime Minister
Minister of Economic Affairs
In office
2000–2004
Prime Minister
Personal details
Born(1944-07-09)9 July 1944
Celje, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia)
Died4 April 2023(2023-04-04) (aged 78)

Tea Petrin (9 July 1944 – 4 April 2023) was a Slovenian economist, politician and diplomat. She was the Minister for Economic Affairs from 2000 to 2004, and she served as the Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2004 to 2008. Petrin was a professor of economics at the University of Ljubljana.

Early life and education

Tea Petrin was born in Celje, Yugoslavia, on 9 July 1944. She studied economics at the University of Ljubljana, where she graduated in 1969, and she earned a Master of Economics from Louisiana State University in the United States in 1971. She returned to the University of Ljubljana for her doctorate in economics, which she earned in 1981.[1][2]

Career

In 1986, Petrin co-founded the Yugoslav General Entrepreneurial Agency (YUGEA) with fellow economists Janez Prašnikar and Aleš Vahčič. The organization was created with a government mandate to improve industry in Yugoslavia. The group concluded that the implementation of economic competition was necessary to restore the Yugoslav economy, and they proposed creating several smaller firms to compete with the primary state-owned firms. Petrin traveled with YUGEA to assist workers in creating spin-off firms.[3]

Petrin was a founding member of the private entrepreneurship school GEA College in 1990.[4] She began teaching at the University of Ljubljana as an assistant professor,[2] where she created a master's program for entrepreneurship studies in 1991.[4] She became a full professor in 1993.[2] Petrin's primary academic focus was economic competition and innovation economics,[4] including her study of socialist economics and its challenges in regulating firm sizes without competition.[3][5] She was also involved with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development's work in Slovenia.[2]

Petrin was appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the government of Janez Drnovšek in November 2000, and she held the position through the government of Anton Rop until April 2004.[1] She resigned from the ministry to become the Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands in 2004.[6] She held the position until 2008.[7]

Death

The University of Ljubljana's economics department confirmed that Petrin had died on 4 April 2023, at age 78.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Umrla je Tea Petrin" [Tea Petrin died]. siol.net (in Slovenian). 4 April 2023. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e Tomažič, Janez (4 April 2023). "Umrla je Tea Petrin" [Tea Petrin died]. Delo (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b Bockman, Johanna (2011). Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism. Stanford University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-8047-7566-3.
  4. ^ a b c Wang, Huiyao; Liu, Yipeng (2016). Entrepreneurship and Talent Management from a Global Perspective: Global Returnees. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. xiii. ISBN 978-1-78347-913-9.
  5. ^ Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Mathewson, G. Frank (1985). New Developments in Analysis of Market Structure: International Conference Proceedings. Springer. p. 307. ISBN 978-1-349-18058-5.
  6. ^ "Umrla nekdanja šefinja premierja Goloba, ministrica za gospodarstvo v Drnovškovi vladi" [The former boss of Prime Minister Golob, the Minister of Economy in Drnovšek's government, has died]. Demokracija (in Slovenian). 4 April 2023. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Tea Petrin". The Academic Industry Research Network. 22 July 2020. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2023.