Boštjan Skalar

CEO
World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA)
Geneva, Switzerland


Boštjan Skalar is a Slovenian citizen born in Ljubljana and is currently serving as an Executive Director - CEO of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies. WAIPA is the umbrella organization of worldwide investment promotion agencies established in 1995 in Geneva under auspices of UNCTAD. Previously he served as a Director of new Slovenian Public Agency for Promotion of Investment, Internationalization, Entrepreneurship and Tourism (SPIRIT). He got a mandate from then Government and has successfully merged together agencies for Investment and Internationalization, Tourism and Technology and optimized organizational, employment and financial structure in the new agency. SPIRIT was and still is successful in attracting, facilitating and expanding Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to Slovenia. He also served four years as a Consul for Economic Affairs of Slovenia in Istanbul, Turkey. He has also effectively performed his international business and market development activities and managing roles of various companies in the textile, automobile, printing and construction sector in many foreign countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, France and Turkey. He studied in the Faculty of Economics in Maribor, Slovenia where he graduated in marketing. He has also graduated in Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Kranj, Slovenia in Human Resources management. He has over 20 years of management experience and is one of the global leaders in investment promotion area with a private-sector focus. His vast experiences in different fields from private to public sector give him a global overview on current business and geopolitical trends that influences the flows of FDI.


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