His surname is pronounced ZHEE-zhek. The Z with caron represents a voiced palato-alveolar sound in Czech, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, and Macedonian.
He is a professor at the European Graduate School, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities in London and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's institute of sociology. [2008].