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Jure Leben, Slovenian Politician and Environmentalist; * 22th April 1981, Ljubljana.

Leben is a former Minister of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning.

Early Life
In youth he actively pursued Basketball, which led him to the United States. There he studied Grading and Environment Protection, then he worked in British Transport Research Laboratory. In United Kingdom he next studied in Oxford, where he specialized on the subject of Environment and he got his Master's degree from Philoshopy.

Politics
In 2008 he started working at Centre for Sustainable Energy and Environment Protecting in Pivka and then has worked in the Goverment Job for Climate Change. In 2012 he started working at the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Food. In 2014 he joined the new founded Party of Miro Cerar (later Modern Centre Party). In the Cabinet of Miro Cerar he was appointed on the place of the state Secretary at Ministry for Natoural Resources and Spatial Planning. After less than a month it was found, that Leben said that he is a Master of Science, despite him not getting that title. He offered his resignation to President of Government and to the competent Minister for this department, which they accepted.

After two years the Cerar's government appointed him on the place of the state Secreatry at theMinistry for Infrastructure, where he was responsible for the infrastructrial project "drugi tir", a second train line between Divača-Koper. Beacuse of the annulment from Consititutional Court about the first Referendum for the "drugi tir", the whole of the Cabinet of Miro Cerar resigned.

After the elections in 2018 SMC suggeseted Leben for the Minister for Natoural Resources and Spatial Planning in the new 13th Government led by Marjan Šarec. After five months of the new Government, it surfaced that the Model for "drugi tir", which showed the course of the track, was overpaid. There were also speculations about the financial benefits for the party of SMC. Leben who was the head of the project, resigned on the 27th February 2019. President of SMC Miro Cerar has expressed confidence to Leben. In January 2020 it was communicated that Leben, wasn't in the investigation among the suspects.

In January of 2021 he announced that would be establishing in the political show Studio City. The party was established on 8th of May 2021 and he was elected as their first and sole president of the party. The party would look for environmental balance, between industrial progress and preserving the environment.

Private life
He live is Vrh nad Želimljami.

With his wife Katja they publicly speaked about Infertility and the adoption. In 2013 they addopted a girld from Guinea Bissau.