Žiga Turk

Žiga Turk is a Professor and Chair in Construction Informatics at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering at the University of Ljubljana and Secretary General of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe, chaired by Felipe Gonzales. Born in 1962, he holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, M.Sc. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in technical sciences.

His academic interests include construction informatics (construction information technology), computer integrated construction, internet, Web and grid computing, design communication, philosophy of conceptual modeling and CAD. He wrote several papers on these subjects. He was a coordinator or partner in several EU projects since the 4th framework. He held graduate and undergraduate courses in Ljubljana, Istanbul, Zagreb and Stockholm. More in a detailed CV.

In Slovenia he has been known as the founding editor of the Moj Mikro magazine (1984). He has been setting up Web servers since 1993. His most popular Internet inventions are the Virtual Shareware Library (taht later evolved into shareware.com) and the Woda database tool.

In 2007 and 2008 dr. Turk was a Minister for growth in the government of Slovenia, national coordinator for the Lisbon Strategy, chief negotiator for the Slovenia's accession to the OECD, chairman of the national Sustainable Development Council and Chairman of the Competitiveness Council. His other activities outside of the academia include: Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Telekom Slovenia and Mobitel, member of the Reform Council, Vice Chair of the Strategic Council for Culture, Education and Science etc.

During the Slovenian presidency to the EU, he was in charge of the updates to the Lisbon Strategy and involved in the management of the energy and climate change package. His interest include creativity, entrepreneurship, open access to knowledge, open innovation, renewable energy, r&d policy etc.

REAL ADDRESSES:

Prof.Dr. Ziga Turk
FGG-IKPIR-KGI
Jamova 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

+386-1-4768-622 (office)
+386-1-4250-681 (fax)

VIRTUAL ADDRESSES:

skype: ziga.turk
English blog: Growth, jobs and more
Slovenian blog: Turkov Čas-opis
Web 2.0: twitter, annotated readings, slideshared.

web http://www.zturk.com/
email ziga[dot]turk[a-in-a-circle]gmail[dot]com