Anton Bebler

Anton Bebler (10 March 1937 – 5 April 2026) was a Slovenian political scientist, diplomat and politician. He served as the first Permanent Representative of independent Slovenia to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1992 to 1997, was a founding figure of defence studies in Slovenia at the University of Ljubljana, and stood as a candidate in the 2002 Slovenian presidential election.

Early life and education Bebler was born in Moscow on 10 March 1937, the son of Aleš Bebler, a Slovenian and Yugoslav communist, politician, and diplomat who was then in political emigration in the Soviet Union.

Academic career From 1963 to 1970, Bebler was a researcher at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, and from 1970 to 1972 at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University in the United States. In 1972, he joined the Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism (FSPN), later renamed the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV), at the University of Ljubljana.