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Director
Blaž Torkar

Blaž Torkar is a history professor and defense scholar. He taught military history and selected topics from tactics and strategy at the Center of Military Schools of the Slovenian Army. As part of his academic career, he works in research and teaching as an external assistant assistant professor in the field of modern history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor. He did a lot of research and teaching abroad and was a visiting professor at the Defense University in Brno in the Czech Republic. In December 2023, he was appointed director of the Government Office of the Republic of Slovenia for the Protection of Classified Information.