2016

Since 2003 works as project manager at the Villa Decius Association. Manages and develops international projects, among others ten previous editions of the Visegrad Summer School. Graduated from the Krakow University of Economics (Management) and the Academy of Anti-discrimination Training. Educator and consultant specializing in gender and equality issues. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as coordinator for the USAID Local Partnership Program, later until 2003 for the Department of Education and Culture in the Marshal Office of the Malopolska Region.

Former member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. Chairwoman of the oldest Slovak women’s association “Živena” and chairwoman of the Institute for cultural policies. In the past, she served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Poland (2000–2005), between 1990–1993 Czechoslovak Ambassador to Austria. Founder and during 1993–2000 the director of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association – SFPA (today honorary chair). Lectured at the Institute of International Relationships and Law Harmonization at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava, and currently she is lecturer at the CEVRO Institute (Prague). In 2010, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Meritorious for Culture – Gloria Artis. Author of several books and articles in domestic and international press.