Petra Juvančič is the Director of Corporate Communications at Vzajemna Mutual Health Insurance, the largest health insurance company in Slovenia. Since 2013 she has also been the Head of the Public Relations and Consumer Awareness Committee in the Slovenian Insurance Association.
In her 20+ year career in the media and communications industry, she was first a newspaper journalist at the Slovenian daily newspaper Dnevnik. Later on, she became a news presenter in the morning program as well as a journalist on prime time evening news at POP TV, the largest commercial TV station in Slovenia. She also worked on a student show on local HIT radio. In 2000 she left the news business and went into PR consulting, working both on business and other PR projects.
At Vzajemna Mutual Healthy Insurance Company she was firstly responsible for the establishment of the PR Department. As the Director of Corporate Communications, she is now in charge of corporate communications as a whole – with media, employees, experts, the insured, etc. She also has a wide knowledge of healthcare systems both in Slovenia and abroad and is a member of various healthcare reform groups and associations.
