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Peter Matjasic
Peter Matjašič is Executive Director at Investigate Europe (IE). He co-leads the cooperative and is responsible for external representation, financial management, fundraising, organisational development, and outreach to readers.
Before joining IE, Matjašič was a Senior Program Officer for the Open Society Initiative for Europe responsible for grantmaking in the thematic areas related to accountability, democracy, participation, LGBTI issues, technopolitics and new forms of engagement.
He has been active in the field of youth work for over a decade: starting as a volunteer in Slovenia and completing a European volunteer service in Barcelona, continuing as a youth trainer and facilitator at the European level, and an activists and youth representative with the Young European Federalists. He set up the English version of Le Taurillon webzine, serving as its first editor-in-chief. From 2011 to 2014, Matjašič was president of the European Youth Forum, the main advocacy platform for the rights of young people in Europe.
Matjašič holds an honors degree in international relations from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
