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…

He has been working in the field of lifelong learning in IT for almost 20 years. Since 2011, he has led a non-profit organization  IT in the course, thanks to which hundreds of unemployed university graduates have been able to start a new career in IT. This experience also led him through the field of regional education to the project of establishing an international secondary vocational school in France, which was interrupted with the onset of the pandemic. For the last year, he has been leading OpenLab, the Institute of Vocational Education in Information Technology, which connects secondary schools with technology companies and thus sets new standards for the preparation and education of secondary school students for employment in …

He graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava. Since October 2023, he has been the state secretary at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.

Martin Šuster is a member of the Council for Budget Responsibility in Slovakia, elected by the Parliament for a 7-year term 2022-2029. He was a director of the Research department at the National Bank of Slovakia for many years. He also chaired the Slovak Economic Association until 2020 and since 2017 till 2022 was a chairman of board of Transparency International Slovakia. He has lectured at several Slovak universities. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, specializing in macroeconomics and labour markets. He joined the NBS as an advisor to the deputy governor, later becoming a head of the International Economics Department, and since 2007 he had been the director of the Research …