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Maja Pucelj (1982) graduated from the Faculty of Public Administration in Ljubljana and the Faculty of Management in Koper, and received her master's degree from the New University Faculty of government and European Studies and the European Faculty of Law. She completed her first doctorate at Alma Mater Europaea - ISH in the field of humanities, and completed her second doctorate by New University Faculty of government and European Studies in the field of international studies with an emphasis on human rights. She started her career as a policewoman, where she also participated in a special police unit, she continued her career as a risk manager, head of legal services in the field of leasing and banking, as a director of marketing and auditor in an audit company. Before joining EMUNI and FOŠ, she worked as an advisor to the Minister of Education, Science and Sport in the fields of pre-school education, primary education, secondary and higher education, adult education and the quality of education and as an undersecretary in the Cohesion Policy department at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports. She is an author of numerous works in the field of integration of Muslims into Western countries, Islamophobia and questioning the meaningfulness of the ban on covering the face in the context of the human rights of Muslim women.
Her research focuses on human rights, hate speech, gender equality, organisational behavior, social resposability,...