Advisers of president

Ján Kubiš

Diplomat and politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Since 1999 until 2005, he worked as the Secretary General of the OSCE, later as the EU Special Representative for Central Asia. In the UN structures, he worked as the executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, then took charge of the UN mission in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Libya. He is the holder of several state honors awarded in Austria, France, Afghanistan and Lebanon. After his long career in the UN, he returned to Slovakia in 2021.

Miroslav Slašťan

Professor of European law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava. As part of his scientific and publishing activities, he also focuses on international law, private/commercial law, lecturing and leading seminars and assessment activities in the field of international law and European law. He currently works at the Institute of Expert Activity and in the past worked at the Judicial Academy in Pezinok, the Pan-European University in Bratislava and the Faculty of Law of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. In 2012, he was appointed a member of the Council of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic.

Andrej Krúpa

An entrepreneur who co-founded a successful Slovak startup that is revolutionizing the way people engage with their cities, which has led to him working with many of the world’s greatest metropolises including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Dubai and Doha. As the founder and manager of a startup acceleration program for new tech firms in Slovakia and Czechia, he has helped over a hundred enterprises succeed by raising funds for development and expansion to new markets. This program was rated the best accelerator in the CEE region in 2019 and 2021.

Krisztián Forró

An entrepreneur, public servant and civil rights activist with many years of experience in supporting national communities in Slovakia. He is the president of the civil association Spoločnosť uctievaných - Megbecsültek Társasága (Society of Respected People), which is one of Slovakia’s largest organisations working to improve senior citizens’ quality of life and has nearly 5,000 members. He has been the director of a consulting and trading company since 2008. From 2020 to 2024 he was leader of the political party Magyar Szövetség – Maďarská aliancia (Hungarian Alliance). Under his leadership, three Hungarian parties were united. He has been an elected member of the council of the Trnava Self-Governing Region since 2014. As an advisor to the president of the Slovak Republic for national community issues, he will give new impetus to two-way communication between the head of state and national communities that helps Slovakia flourish as a shared home for all its citizens.