Marjeta Keršič Svetel

Marjeta was born into a mountaineering family and from an early age, she’d already fallen in love with the mountains and the wisdom of people living close to them. A history professor with a degree in ethnology, she’s spent almost twenty years making documentaries and TV features about the natural and cultural heritage of mountainous areas all over the world. For ten years, she was in charge of a monthly TV show called Gore in ljudje (Mountains and People) on Slovenian national television, which garnered several awards on international festivals. Her postgraduate studies were in Ljubljana and London and she has worked extensively on heritage interpretation. She was the vice-president of CIPRA International, as well as a founding member of Mountain Wilderness Slovenija and Interpret Europe. Recently, her main focus has been her work at the National Institute of Public Health.