Since 2020, she is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic and the Minister of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. Between the years 2016 - 2020, she worked as a member of the National Council. Before that, she was a municipal deputy of the Bratislava - Staré Mesto district and lectured at several Slovak universities - at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences and the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava and the Catholic University in Ružomberok. Between 2004 and 2013, she was a member of the European Commission. She graduated as an ArtD. at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She completed her further education at the Higher Education Cert -…

After living and working abroad, Erika has grown to value the perks of living in a digital society that facilitates everyday life. Erika believes in equity and accessibility of government services for every citizen through the best user experience. Having contributed previously to education and youth work, Erika is a strong advocate of automatisation and proactive services so that people can focus on what matters – interpersonal communication, both professionally and in private – rather than engaging in bureaucracy. As a Digital Transformation Adviser at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre, her objective is to support spreading the Estonian digitalisation experience.