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Smiljana Knez is a Slovenian diplomat and Ambassador-at-Large for Climate Diplomacy. Smiljana Knez has also served as a Foreign Policy Advisor of the President of the Republic of Slovenia and to the Czech Republic. Before that she was a Human Rights Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Slovenia. Moreover, during Slovenia’s Presidency to the Council of the European Union, she chaired the EU Working Group on Human Rights.