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Bogomil Ferfila (Phd), double slovenian youth champion in weight lifting, founder and head of the American, German and Global Studies graduate programs is full professor at the University of Ljubljana, where he teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Area Studies and Public Economics. Professor Ferfila has degrees in economics, political science and sociology from different universities (three undergraduate degrees, two master degrees and one Phd). He has authored more than 40 books which were published in Slovenia, quite a few in English. Many of his books were published in foreign countries: USA (1991, 2000, 2010), USSR (1991), Canada (1993, 1994), Serbia (1989, 2012), India (2011), Germany (2012), Moldova (2014).

In 1994 the publishing house of the Faculty of Social Sciences with the assistance of Ministry of Culture has started prof. Ferfilas’ own series of books called World on Your Palm. Up to now forty books have have been published with the fourth one on Antarctica, the fifth one on Japan, the sixth on Greenland and Arctica, the seventh on USA, the thirteenth on Ethiopia, the twentieth on Eastern Europe, twentysecond on North Korea, twentythird on Cuba, thirtyeth on Israel and Palestine, thirtysecond on Iran, thirtyfifth on Libanon and Syria, thirtyseventh on Sweden, thirtyeighth on Afghanistan and thirtyninth on Vikings, Sams and Eskimos. The books published in this series are the combination of the area study approach and the personal travelling experiences of the author.

He has also authored numerous articles and shorter works, some of them were published in Canadian, French, Polish, Japanese, American magazines. Professor Ferfila has participated in seminars and conferences in many countries including Israel, USA, Norway, Japan, China, Austria, Brazil, and Canada. He has lectures at many universities including the University California at Los Angeles, Berkeley and Riverside, the State University of New York, Duke University, Ohio State University, all in the United States; Simon Fraser, York, Carleton, British Columbia and Winnipeg in Canada; the Academy of Sciences USSR, University of Adelaide in Australia, Katmandu University in Nepal, Institute for Parliamentary Development and Entrepreneurship in Belarus, University of Tokyo, Japan Institute of International Affairs in Japan and others.

He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pittsburg from 1990-1991 and Japan Foundation fellow in 1998. He was a visiting professor of Comparative politics at Cleveland State University (spring quarter of 1991) and of Socialist Economics at the University of Manitoba (summer terms 1991 and 1993). From 1998 to 2017 he has been visiting senior scholar at the University of Manitoba, Canada and State University of Washington, USA for one to two months every year