Vesna is a senior advisor to the Republic of Slovenia’s Ministry of Education and Sport’s Education Development Office and visiting professor at various universities. She is a lawyer with extensive experience in legislation and in the preparation of laws for various cultural fields. She is also a public policy analyst involved in the evaluation of national cultural policy and in the development of information infrastructures for cultural policy formulation and implementation, including cultural statistics. She has a thematic specialization in regulatory and legal frameworks for the audiovisual sector, libraries, museums, amateur culture and all other schemes related to the organization, funding and governance of cultural organizations, as well as transversal topics such as tax regulation, labour relations, social security or remuneration schemes. Vesna has been an expert for Council of Europe programmes, EU research projects, ECF and UNDP activities, and recently advised the Government of Mauritius and Romania on the design of a new law on the Status of the Artist.