Experience

Slovak Investment Holding (SIH)

• Slovakia
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analysis and Strategy

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Research and analysis of the legislative and economic environment for the development of the long-term business strategy; providing advice and analytical support in the implementation of financial instruments to the Board of Directors; participating in the design of the selection of financial intermediaries; and drafting the relevant State aid and De minimis aid schemes, including the notification process to the European Commission and/or the Antimonopoly Office.

• Investment Manager

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2023

  Management of the portfolio of the European Structural and Investment Funds financial instruments to support the social economy in Slovakia.

• Advisor to the Board of Directors

  • Feb 2017 - Jun 2020

  Advice and management with regard to the European Structural and Investment Funds repayable financial instruments support of the social economy in Slovakia.



Dostupný Domov, j. s. a.

• Chair of the Supervisory Board

  • Feb 2020 - Jul 2023

  Public sector representative in a joint venture with Slovenská sporiteľňa (ERSTE Group) aiming to provide accessible housing for disadvantaged persons and socially less advantaged groups, including social and employment service support where required. Public sector representative in a joint venture with Slovenská sporiteľňa (ERSTE Group) aiming to provide accessible housing for disadvantaged persons and socially less advantaged groups, including social and employment service support where required.



EXIMBANKA SR / National Development Fund I. / Transport & Construction Ministry

• Author, COVID-19 Temporary State Aid Framework Schemes

  • May 2020 - Jul 2020

  Chief author of three State Aid Schemes based on the Art. 3.1 and 3.2 of the Communication from the Commission: Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak 2020/C 91 I/01 and the main interlocutor in the European Commission notification process. Chief author of three State Aid Schemes based on the Art. 3.1 and 3.2 of the Communication from the Commission: Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak 2020/C 91 I/01 and the main interlocutor in the European Commission notification process.



Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic

• Slovakia
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Advisor to the Finance Minister (Government Counsellor General)

  • May 2016 - Jun 2020

  Top-level strategy and policy-making advice, with a special focus on the Eurozone architecture and European Structural and Investment Funds financial instruments (repayable forms of support), as well as social entrepreneurship support

• Advisor to the Deputy Finance Minister

  • Oct 2012 - May 2016

  Top-level strategy and policy-making advice, with a special focus on the Eurozone architecture and European Structural and Investment Funds financial instruments (repayable forms of support)



Ministry of Transport & Construction / Finance Ministry

• Author, De Minimis Aid Schemes

  • 2013 - 2020

  Chief author of Aid Schemes based on the Art. 4 (2) and (6) of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid and the main interlocutor in the Anti-Monopoly Office (national aid co-ordinator) assessment process. Chief author of Aid Schemes based on the Art. 4 (2) and (6) of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid and the main interlocutor in the Anti-Monopoly Office (national aid co-ordinator) assessment process.



Ministry of Labour, Social Affaires and Family of the Slovak Republic

• Slovakia
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• External Advisor to the Minister

  • May 2018 - Dec 2019

• Author, General Block Exemption Regulation 651/2014 State Aid Schemes

  • May 2018 - Dec 2018

  Chief author and a co-author of State Aid Schemes based on the Art. 14, 17, 21 and 22 of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty and the maininterlocutor in the Anti-Monopoly Office (national aid co-ordinator) assessment process.

• Team Leader, Social Economy Legislation Working Group

  • Nov 2016 - Mar 2018

  Facilitating the work of the expert group to produce the outline of a new legislation; drafting the final proposal for the Social Economy Act (Act. No 112/2018 Coll. on the Social Economy and Social Enterprises). Facilitating the work of the expert group to produce the outline of a new legislation; drafting the final proposal for the Social Economy Act (Act. No 112/2018 Coll. on the Social Economy and Social Enterprises).


Esmerk
• United States
• Medical Practices
• Analyst

  • Nov 2009 - Sep 2012


London School of Economics

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PhD Research Student

  • Sep 1999 - Feb 2009

  Several employment-related long-term interruptions (see below) Several employment-related long-term interruptions (see below)


SkyEurope Airlines
• Slovakia
• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Sub-Editor at SkyEurope Magazine

  • Sep 2008 - Jan 2009

Friends of the Earth Slovakia - CEPA
• Chair Of The Board Of Trustees

  • Jan 2007 - Aug 2008

Slovo, Current Affairs Weekly
• Editor

  • Oct 2006 - Mar 2008

BBC
• Italy
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Relief Producer, World Service Slovak Section

  • Aug 2002 - Jun 2004
• Producer, World Service Slovak Section

  • Oct 1999 - Oct 2001

• Relief Producer, World Service Slovak Section

  • Feb 1996 - Sep 1999