Edvard Kardelj () (January 27, 1910 – February 10, 1979), also known under the pseudonyms Sperans and Krištof, was before WW II a publicist and one of leading members of illegal Communist Party from Ljubljana, Slovenia, during the war one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, Slovene Partisan, and after the war a federal political leader in Titoist Yugoslavia, who led the Yugoslav delegation that negotiated peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March. He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of establishing workers' self-management, an economist, and a full member of both Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.