Andrej Šircelj graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and completed his master’s degree at the Faculty of Law in Maribor. In 2005, he was appointed State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister with a mandate at the Ministry of Finance. In charge of key government projects in the areas of banking, finance, and infrastructure, he cooperated with many international institutions, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He was also in charge of projects in the areas of finance and taxes during the Slovenia's Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2008.
Between 2008 and 2009, he was a member of the Board of Directors at the European Investment Bank. In 2011, he was elected as member to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, where he chaired the Committee on Finance and Monetary Policy. He was re-elected as member to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2018 elections.
