Speakers ITAPA Open Talk
The public discussion within the Spring ITAPA 2021 event will offer the view of politicians and experts on the necessary reforms of Slovakia. Will the approved Recovery Plan contribute to fundamental reforms of the Slovak economy and society? Will the plan be translated into reality? And what should be the ambition of politicians and experts in the effort to move Slovakia into the position of the Central European tiger? In the Open Talk, we will talk openly about reforms, the economy, justice and social change.
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Ivan Mikloš
ex-Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Slovak Republic
Ivan Mikloš was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Slovak Republic in 2010 – 2012 and 2002 – 2006. He was Deputy Prime Minister for Economics in the first government of Mikuláš Dzurinda in 1998 – 2002. In 1991 he became a Minister for Privatisation (1991 – 1992). Consequently in 1992 he co-founded and led economic think-tank MESA 1…
Marek Antal
Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic
He started his career at VSŽ Košice as a programmer. Later he became a manager in various positions with responsibility for IT systems, many of which have been operating successfully to this day. After the extensive experience, he then decided to build new IT companies of Ness KDC in Košice and GlobalLogic, which targeted customers abroad. In th…
Lívia Vašáková
West Slovak energy
Ing. Lívia Vašáková, PhD., works in the energy sector as the Director of the Corporate Development and Public Relations Division for the ZSE Group. She is the former Director General of the Recovery Plan Section at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic, where she developed Slovakia’s recovery plan and implemented an efficient system for i…
Michal Vašečka
Sociologist
Doc. PhDr. Michal Vašečka, PhD. is a sociologist, studied at Masaryk University. Since 2017 he is the Programme Director of the Bratislava Policy Institute in Bratislava. He focuses on issues of ethnicity, migration, populism, extremism and civil society.
Previously, he worked at Masaryk University (2002-2017), Comenius University (2006-2009)…
Miriama Letovanec
former director of the Implementation Unit of the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic
Analyst and expert in public policy making. In 2017-2021, she headed the Implementation Unit of the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic, which controlled the fulfillment of the principles of Value for Money in ministries. Prior to that, she worked as a fiscal and regulatory affairs manager at Philip Morris Slovakia. She worked for th…
