Michal Kaliňák is a political scientist specialising in local government. In the past he worked as a spokesman, secretary of the Council of Experts and later as the central director of the office of the Association of Towns and Municipalities of Slovakia. He has been with ZMOS since 2010. He worked in local government as a municipal deputy, first in Medzilaborce and later in Prešov. In the meantime, he held the position of spokesperson for the city of Prešov and also head of the public communication department in the Bratislava - Petržalka Municipal District. He was assistant to the President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, advisor and spokesman to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Knowledge Society, Eu…

Milan FIĽA is a long-term project manager and business consultant in the field of development, investment, educational and R & D & I projects. He works as the main coordinator of the National Business Center (NBC) Nitra under the responsibility of the Slovak Business Agency (SBA), a consultant at FLASH Consulting, s.r.o., and also as a teacher at the Institute of Economics and Management UKF in Nitra. He is a member of working groups focused on regional development, support for innovation and entrepreneurship in the city of Nitra and the Nitra self-governing region. He works as the main coordinator of the National Business Center (NPC) Nitra under the responsibility of the Slovak Business Agency (SBA), a consultant at FLASH Consult…

Ján Ridzoň is the general director of the Program Slovakia 2021 – 2027 section at the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. During his tenure in this position, the Slovakia 2021-2027 Program was approved, which represents an important investment tool of the EU and Slovakia with a total allocation of funds in the amount of EUR 15.5 billion. Before that, he worked for almost six years at the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU in Brussels, where he primarily dealt with EU budget matters, negotiating the multi-year EU financial framework for the years 2021-2027 and the crisis budget of the NextGenerationEU recovery plan. Before that, he worked for 10 years at the M…

Ing. Lenka Gabrhelová, PhD. she currently works as the general director of the Recovery Plan Section at the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic, where she previously also worked as the director of the Methodological and Legal Department. Before joining the Government Office, she headed the Methodological and Legal Department of the Recovery Plan Section at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, where she also worked as the head of the International Sources Methodology Department within the Audit and Control Section. She has been working in public administration and in the field of funds from the European Union since 2005. She is a graduate of the Department of Public Economy and Administration at the Faculty of Econo…