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Tara Sergeja Kadunc graduated in International Relations (European Integration track) from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, in 2022. In 2026 she completed a Master in Public Policy (Social Policy and Social Innovation track) at Sciences Po, School of Public Affairs, in Paris, graduating summa cum laude, an honour awarded to the top 2% of the programme. During her studies she completed an exchange at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. In her master’s thesis, “From Post-Socialist Security to Housing Inequality: Housing Tenure, Vulnerability, and Subjective Wellbeing in Slovenia, 2005–2024”, she used quantitative analysis of survey data to examine the links between housing tenure, housing vulnerability and subjective wellbeing. She worked at the OECD in Paris, where she contributed to research on regional development, demographic change, and housing and spatial policies, including through collaboration with the European Commission, and at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Since September 2026 she has worked as a researcher in housing policy at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS), and she is a co-author of the report Stanovanjska problematika v Sloveniji in Evropski uniji: stanje in priporočila (Housing Challenges in Slovenia and the European Union: State of Play and Recommendations).