Tea Petrin
{{Short description|Slovenian economist, politician, and diplomat (1944–2023)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Tea Petrin
| office = Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands
| term_start = 2004
| term_end = 2008
| primeminister = {{ubl|Anton Rop|Janez Janša}}
| office2 = Minister of Economic Affairs
| term_start2 = 2000
| term_end2 = 2004
| primeminister2 = {{ubl|Janez Drnovšek|Anton Rop}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|07|09|df=y}}
| birth_place = Celje, Yugoslavia {{awrap|(now Slovenia)}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|04|04|1944|07|09|df=y}}
}}
Tea Petrin (9 July 1944 – 4 April 2023) was a Slovenian economist, politician and diplomat. She was the Minister for Economic Affairs from 2000 to 2004, and she served as the Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2004 to 2008. Petrin was a professor of economics at the University of Ljubljana.
Early life and education
Tea Petrin was born in Celje, Yugoslavia, on 9 July 1944. She studied economics at the University of Ljubljana, where she graduated in 1969, and she earned a Master of Economics from Louisiana State University in the United States in 1971. She returned to the University of Ljubljana for her doctorate in economics, which she earned in 1981.{{Cite web |date=4 April 2023 |title=Umrla je Tea Petrin |trans-title=Tea Petrin died |url=https://siol.net/novice/slovenija/umrla-je-tea-petrin-603395 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404202442/https://siol.net/novice/slovenija/umrla-je-tea-petrin-603395 |archive-date=4 April 2023 |access-date=4 April 2023 |website=siol.net |language=sl}}{{Cite web |last=Tomažič |first=Janez |date=4 April 2023 |title=Umrla je Tea Petrin |trans-title=Tea Petrin died |url=https://www.delo.si/gospodarstvo/novice/umrla-je-tea-petrin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404092824/https://www.delo.si/gospodarstvo/novice/umrla-je-tea-petrin/ |archive-date=4 April 2023 |access-date=4 April 2023 |website=Delo |language=sl-si}}
Career
In 1986, Petrin co-founded the Yugoslav General Entrepreneurial Agency (YUGEA) with fellow economists Janez Prašnikar and Aleš Vahčič. The organization was created with a government mandate to improve industry in Yugoslavia. The group concluded that the implementation of economic competition was necessary to restore the Yugoslav economy, and they proposed creating several smaller firms to compete with the primary state-owned firms. Petrin traveled with YUGEA to assist workers in creating spin-off firms.{{Cite book |last=Bockman |first=Johanna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uy6Zb18O8doC |title=Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-8047-7566-3 |pages=169 |language=en}}
Petrin was a founding member of the private entrepreneurship school GEA College in 1990.{{Cite book |last1=Wang |first1=Huiyao |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYteCwAAQBAJ |title=Entrepreneurship and Talent Management from a Global Perspective: Global Returnees |last2=Liu |first2=Yipeng |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78347-913-9 |pages=xiii |language=en}} She began teaching at the University of Ljubljana as an assistant professor, where she created a master's program for entrepreneurship studies in 1991. She became a full professor in 1993. Petrin's primary academic focus was economic competition and innovation economics, including her study of socialist economics and its challenges in regulating firm sizes without competition.{{Cite book |last1=Stiglitz |first1=Joseph E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KwKxCwAAQBAJ |title=New Developments in Analysis of Market Structure: International Conference Proceedings |last2=Mathewson |first2=G. Frank |publisher=Springer |year=1985 |isbn=978-1-349-18058-5 |pages=307 |language=en}} She was also involved with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development's work in Slovenia.
Petrin was appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the government of Janez Drnovšek in November 2000, and she held the position through the government of Anton Rop until April 2004. She resigned from the ministry to become the Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands in 2004.{{Cite web |date=4 April 2023 |title=Umrla nekdanja šefinja premierja Goloba, ministrica za gospodarstvo v Drnovškovi vladi |trans-title=The former boss of Prime Minister Golob, the Minister of Economy in Drnovšek's government, has died |url=https://demokracija.si/fokus/umrla-nekdanja-sefinja-premierja-goloba-ministrica-za-gospodarstvo-v-drnovskovi-vladi/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404204149/https://demokracija.si/fokus/umrla-nekdanja-sefinja-premierja-goloba-ministrica-za-gospodarstvo-v-drnovskovi-vladi/ |archive-date=4 April 2023 |access-date=4 April 2023 |website=Demokracija |language=sl-SI}} She held the position until 2008.{{Cite web |date=22 July 2020 |title=Tea Petrin |url=https://theairnet.org/tea-petrin-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414204445/https://theairnet.org/tea-petrin-2/ |archive-date=14 April 2021 |access-date=4 April 2023 |website=The Academic Industry Research Network}}
Death
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Category:20th-century Slovenian economists
Category:21st-century Slovenian economists
Category:21st-century diplomats
Category:Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
Category:Louisiana State University alumni
Category:Slovenian women ambassadors
Category:Slovenian women diplomats
Category:University of Ljubljana alumni
Category:Government ministers of Slovenia