Held the position of General Director of the Innovation, Strategic Investment and Analysis Section (HUB) at the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatics. Among other things, he was responsible for the preparation and implementation of the Fair Transformation Fund, which serves to support the transformation of selected regions in Slovakia into carbon-neutral economies. Currently, he is holding the position of minister at the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatics He also worked as an expert within JASPERS (European Investment Bank) and focused on projects funded by the ESI Funds in the areas of innovation, research and development and the promotion of smart cities. In the past, Peter worked as …

Before being elected in 2020, Tomáš was director of Carnegie Europe and a senior fellow, where his research focused on security and defense, transatlantic relations, and Europe’s Eastern neighborhood. Previously , Valášek served as the permanent representative of the Slovak Republic to NATO for nearly four years (2013 -2017). Before that, he was president of the Central European Policy Institute in Bratislava (2012–2013), director of foreign policy and defense at the Centre for European Reform in London (2007–2012), and founder and director of the Brussels office of the World Security Institute (2002–2006). In 2006–2007, he served as acting political director and head of the security and defense policy division at the Slovak Ministry of …

Ing. Lívia Vašáková, PhD. she currently holds the position of Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic. Before that, she headed the Recovery Plan Section at the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic as the Director General. She also worked as the head of the Economic Analysis Section at the Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia and at the Directorate General for Energy in the European Commission in Brussels. She studied at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria; Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany; the University of Aix-en-Provence in France and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She also has a diploma from postgraduate studies at the Europa-K…

Martin Giertl, a lawyer specializing in human rights, NGOs, civil society and open government. After 2 years of service in foreign policy and 20 years of work as a senior lawyer for the Charter 77 Bratislava Foundation, he was appointed Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for the Development of Civil Society. He was a founder of the Slovak National Center for Human Rights, a long-term member of the Board of the Third Sector. As a plenipotentiary, he helped set up unique demand challenges for non-governmental non-profit organizations from the operational program of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic Effective Public Administration, the national implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Vision and S…