Jakob R Avgustin

Experience

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  Cubic Applications, Inc.

  Oct 2005 - May 2007

  Technical Adviser/Interpreter

  on-demand translation of newspaper articles from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro available online into English

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  Slovenia's EU Presidency Secretariat

  May 2006 - Jul 2008

  Head Logistics Coordinator
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  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences

  Oct 2006 - Dec 2007

  Lecturer

  Lecturer, responsible for the course Diplomatic and Consular Relations

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  Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Head of the Minister's Office

  - technical and content support to the Minister and State Secretary which included management of their calendar and their correspondence, support in meetings, and organisation of all their events; - coordination between internal units of the Ministry; - coordination of the Ministry with the Government and other state bodies; - coordination of the Ministry with the Parliament; - management of the Minister’s Office - technical support and content-related employees;

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  Secretariat of Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2011

  Consultant

  consultancy on logistics and support for EU Presidency events

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  Protocol of the Republic of Slovenia

  Aug 2011 - Aug 2013

  Senior Officer

  planning, organising, implementing and executing protocol events and ceremony at the highest state level

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  E-International Relations

  Jan 2014 - Apr 2022

  Editor at Large

  E-IR is the world’s leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. We are all-volunteer team of academics, practitioners and students. We give up some of our time because we want to have a hand in furthering E-IR’s goal of creating a unique resource for students and scholars. Our goals:1) To be the leading open access scholarly publisher in our field, making high quality expert content free to view for all.2) To provide the best source of freely available scholarly materials for students of International Relations. Show less

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  Wikistrat

  Feb 2014 - Jun 2015

  Contributing Analyst

  Wikistrat is the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Online Consultancy (MMOC). It leverages a global network of subject-matter experts via a patent pending crowdsourcing methodology to provide insights unavailable anywhere else. This online network offers a uniquely powerful and unprecedented strategic consulting service: the internet’s only central intelligence exchange for strategic analysis and forecasting. These ideas and insights are delivered, for the first time, on a real-time, interactive platform. Show less

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  World Debate Institute

  Nov 2014 - Jan 2017

  Fellow

  The World Debate Institute [WDI] has been training people in the arts and skills of debating since 1982. It has trained many thousands of people from more than fifty countries at locations in thirty-eight countries. One of the purposes of the WDI is to support a global network of debate activities, especially trainers who know what they are doing, have an established reputation and record, and are willing to go where there is not yet an active debating community and help establish or nurture one. The other is to provide technical expertise and assistance to any new or developing debate program in the world. The WDI is a non-profit academic program of the University of Vermont. Show less

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  University of East Anglia

  Jan 2017 - now

  • Information Compliance Specialist

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Learning & Teaching Service

    Jul 2016 - Mar 2022

  • Associate Tutor

    Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
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  Nepal Matters for America

  Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

  Research Consultant