Zvone Žigon has a BA in journalism, an MA in social anthropology and PhD in political science from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. From 1991 to 1996, active as a newspaper journalist. Through the Institute for Slovenian Migration Studies, he published four scientific books on ethnic identity among Slovenians abroad. From 2005 to 2009, he served as consul general of Slovenia in Cleveland, USA, and 2010 to 2011 as chargé d’affaires at the embassy in Canberra, Australia. From 2011, he has worked as Head of division with the Government’s Office for Slovenians Abroad.