Michal Ilko holds the position of Director General of the Social Insurance Agency since April 1, 2022. He is a long-time expert in the field of IT services. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing new information solutions or modernizing original systems. He has implemented several strategic projects at the national and international level.

In the period from 2020 to 2022, he held the position of Director of the Section of Informatics in the Social Insurance Agency. His target was setting up an investment plan to remediate the technological debt of the IT infrastructure of the Agency as well as creating a data office to improve use of data to support the decision-making process at managerial level. Between 2011 and 2020, he worked at Merck, Ltd. as a Senior IT/CRM Specialist, where he subsequently worked his way up to the position of Head of Qualification & Release management. He was responsible for the international team of IT managers and the implementation of the qualification, management and publication of changes for the global ERP system in the framework of multinational projects.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Economic Informatics at the University of Economics in Bratislava. He completed several skill-oriented trainings obtaining certificates in the area of information security and corporate IT management.