Jakob Štunf has been with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs since 2002, serving in various capacities at the Embassies of the Republic of Slovenia to the Holy See (2003-2007), Prague (2008-2012) and Zagreb (2014-2018). In 2019, he was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Prior to his ambassadorship to the Republic of Albania, he was Head of the Enlargement and South-Eastern Europe Division at the Ministry of of Foreign and European Affairs from August 2023.