ITAPA OPEN TALK: "Modernizing the Country: What to Fund and What to Stop Funding?"
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Ladislav Šimko
Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic
He has extensive experience in public administration and strategic management, having served as Director of Interhotels Tatry and Košice, as well as working in the consulting sector focused on macroeconomic and project analysis. He later held senior positions at the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak News Agency (TASR), …
Tomáš Drucker
Minister of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic
He graduated from the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology of the Slovak Technical University and the Faculty of Law of the Trnava University. From 1997 to 2006 he worked in the IT sector. He subsequently held various managerial positions in several state-owned companies, such as the Military Repair Company Nováky and the Nuclear Decommis…
Martin Venhart
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Nuclear physicist Martin Venhart, DrSc., specializes in studying the shapes of atomic nuclei. His research focuses on solving the long-standing mystery of atomic nucleus deformation and revealing their non-spherical shapes. In 2021, his team discovered that the mosaic of knowledge about nucleus deformation lacks key information about very low-en…
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