Mark Boris Andrijanič

Mark Boris Andrijanič is a member of Governing Board at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. He is a tech executive and policy expert passionate about human-centred digital transformation. He is also Vice-President of international markets at Kumo.AI, a Sequoia Capital-backed deep learning venture based in Mountain View, California. Previously, he served as Slovenia’s first-ever minister of digital transformation between 2021 and 2022. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, during which time his research focused on European foreign policy, energy security, and energy market reform.

As a civil society leader in his native Slovenia, Mark has co-founded and led a number of leading NGOs and initiatives, aimed at promoting entrepreneurship, active citizenship and human rights. He hosted many international leaders, including the Secretary General of the OECD, and received several national and international awards for his democracy building efforts. He obtained a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford after graduating in law from the University of Ljubljana.