Dr. Vesna Bergant Rakočević is senior higher judge at the Ljubljana Higher Court and Deputy Chief of the Civil Division as well as Vice-President of the Court.  She graduated and obtained her Ph. D. degree at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

She is a mentor, trainer judge, supervisor, European Judicial Training Network fellow and multiple expert for the European Commission. She also teaches as invited guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana civil procedural and arbitration law.

She is an arbitrator at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where she has been a member of panels for several different sports (basketball, football, golf, dressage). She is co-author and editor of the only Slovenian scientific monograph in the field of Sports Law. She is fluent in english, serbian and croatian.