Mojca Drevenšek graduated in 1999 in communication sciences/marketing communications from the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. She received a Faculty Prešeren Award for her undergraduate thesis entitled Crisis Communication in the Health Sector. In 2004, she obtained a master’s degree from the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her master’s thesis The Importance of Trust in Communicating Environment Risks won her the prestigious 2005 Jos Willems Award, which is awarded by Euprera, the European Public Relations Education and Research Association. In the academic year 2009/2010, she is planning to conclude her studies of corporate law at the Maribor Faculty of Law.
She has been working in the PR business since 1997 and has been member of Consensus since 2000. She mainly works on communications support for environmental, energy and spatial planning projects, and assists in planning and implementing corporate responsibility programmes. For her project Protect Sources of Drinking Water (commissioned by the Ljubljana water distribution and sewage management public company) she received the 2001 Prism Award from the Public Relations Society of Slovenia. She teaches PR and corporate responsibility.
She has co-written the books Citizenship, Environment, Economy (ed. Andrew Dobson and Ángel Valencia Sáiz; Routledge 2006) and Odnosi z lokalnimi skupnostmi [Relations with Local Communities] (co-authors: Darinka Pek Drapal and Andrej Drapal, GV Založba, Zbirka PR, 2004). She has also contributed over 300 articles on public relations, environmental issues and law to magazines such as Finance, Manager, Gospodarski vestnik, Pravna praksa and Tajnica. She has published extensively in the Slovene and international press, mainly on communicating environmental issues.
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