Drašček, Matej

Matej Drašček got his PhD at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He began his professional career at OTIS, multinational lift company, where he and his team won the Award for Best Slovenian Safety Project as well as participated at EU competition for Safety at work representing Slovenia. After 5 years, he took over as managing director of Biring Biro, which he turned around in two years. After successful turnaround, he took over the position of director of shared services in Radeče papir nova, paper production company, where he helped develop and implement modern HR tools into the company and was responsible for areas of legal and general affairs, IT and HR. After three years, he changed his profession and career and is now chief audit executive in a regional retail bank, LON d.d., where he is still today.

During all this, he has been a teaching assistant at Faculty of Economics by Strategic management as well as guest lecturer at other universities and faculties. He has published numerous professional and scientific international articles mainly on topics of HR, business ethics, strategic management as well as internal audit and been invited as a speaker to numerous international conferences (IIA Global, Germany, Peru, ECIIA, Canada etc.). He has also been a member of supervisory boards in different organisations.

He holds Slovenian certification for internal auditor, as well as CIA (won the William S. Smith CIA – Certificate of Honors Award), CRMA and CFSA. He is also IIA Slovenia president.