Verena Perko is an archaeologist and museologist, museum curator, and university teacher. She continued her education at the University of Zagreb, Masaryk University in Brno, and in the United States on a Paul Getty scholarship. She was the Director General of the Directorate for Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. She is one of the initiators and founders of doctoral heritage studies at the University of Ljubljana, and a member of the international professional associations ICOM, ICOMOSS, and Interpret Europe.