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Manja held research and/or teaching positions at Harvard University - Graduate School of Education; Harvard University - Kennedy School of Government (Center for Business and Government); Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung; Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels; Center for Educational Management and Higher Education Development, Danube University Krems, Austria; Center for International Higher Education at Boston College; and Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. From 2010, she has been associated member of Center for Education Policy Studies at Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana. 

From 1998 until 2001, she held a mandate of a Secretary General of the European Students' Union (ESU), the European platform of the national student unions from 37 countries representing over 11 million of students. During her three-year political and executive mandate, she worked on ESU's involvement in the Bologna Process towards establishment of the European Higher Education Area (she participated in the Bologna Ministerial Summit at the occasion of the adoption of the Bologna Declaration and the Prague Summit, and served in the Extended Bologna Follow-Up Group of the Bologna Process).

ESU - European Students' UnionBologna Process - European Higher Education Area

She was also involved in policy processes to support higher education reconstruction in the South Eastern Europe in the framework of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe (Graz Process), and in this framework served in the the Task Force for Education and Youth; the Higher Education Working Group; the Working Group on Young People and the Academic Task Force for Kosovo. 

She interned for six months as a junior auditor for Deloitte and Touche in Ljubljana in 1998. 

  From 1994 to 1997, Manja worked as a (founding) coordinator of the Slovenian debate program funded by the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation (now Institute for Culture of Dialogue, Pro et Contra) and a regional debate trainer. She also competed at debate tournaments, including as the first Slovenian debater at the Worlds' Universities Debating Championships. From 1998 to 1999  she was elected representative of the Worlds Universities Debating Council. From 1999 to 2001  she served on the Board of the newly established “Pro et Contra” Institute for Culture of Dialogue, Slovenia.

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