Kerstin Vesna Petriç

Director-General of the Directorate for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Slovenia

Kerstin Vesna Petrič currently holds the position of Director-General of the Directorate for Public Health at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia. She assumed this position following a successful sixteen-year engagement as Head of the Division for Health Promotion and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases at the Directorate for Public Health at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia. From 1998 to 2004 she was the Head of Office for WHO relations at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia and acted as WHO Liaison Officer. She was a member of the WHO Standing Committee of the Regional Committee for Europe (SCRC) from 2016 to 2019. Kerstin Vesna Petrič is also a member of Executive Board of WHO from 2020. During her career she contributed and led processes of implementation of different policies in area of alcohol and tobacco control as well as illicit drugs.