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…

Martin Klus is a Slovak professional political scientist and graduated political theorist. He has obtained postgraduate diploma in Theory of Politics. Prior entering Slovak politics he had worked as university lecturer and political analyst providing political analyses and commentaries to domestic and foreign media. Between the years 2013 and 20…

In the years 2002-2004, he worked as the editor of the foreign affairs department in Denník SME. Since 2004, he has been working at the Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic in various positions: in the years 2004-2005 as chief state adviser and researcher at the Institute of Security and Defense Policy, in the years 2006-2010 as general st…

Vladimíra Marcinková - Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and Chair of the Committee on European Affairs She studied law at the Faculty of Law of the Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. She worked in the office of the President of the Slovak Republic Andrej Kisk as the head of the Department of Regional Policy. Since …