Template:Multiple issuesLuka Novak (August 1, 1963 in Koper) is a Slovenian writer, politician, publisher and TV personality. He is the director of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office http://www.uil-sipo.si/.He studied Comparative Literature, French, Italian and Romance Philology (Universities of Ljubljana, Bonn, Tübingen, 1989–1993), and obtained an MBA in 1997 (IEDC International Business School Bled http://www.iedc.si/home.aspx, 1997). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Tübingen.An essayist and journalist (Telex, Problemi, Deutsche Welle, Delo) Mr. Novak co-founded Vale-Novak Publishers. and is a member of various boards: the Slovenian Book Fair (2002–2011), Maribor as European Capital of Culture 2012, the Slovenian Book Agency. He ran for Mayor of Ljubljana in 2006.
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