Dejan Verčić, Ph.D., is a professor of Public Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Professor Verčić holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has written or edited 14 books and more than 300 articles, book chapters, monographs, reviews, and conference papers on public relations theory and research.
In 2000 and 2010 he received special awards from the Public Relations Society of Slovenia, and in 2001 he was awarded the Alan Campbell-Johnson Medal for outstanding service to international public relations by the UK Chartered Institute of Public Relations (of which he is a Fellow).