Professional experience

CESCI-Carpathia
Director (2015 – )

• Consultation and research analytical work in the regional development area
• Development audit of the City of Košice Preparedness for Development thru Carpathian Development Institute,
• Preparation of development plans for local and regional government in Slovakia:
• POKER – development plan for Eastern Slovakia,
• development plans for towns:
  • Michalovce,
  • Krompachy,
  • Strážske
  • Sliač
  • Tornaľa
• Development plan for the city of Košice
• Project Good Governance on the regional level in the area of regional development in Slovakia – Governance; main aim: to improve quality of regional governance in the area of development; financed by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism
• Provision of education and training for both elected and executive representatives in the local and regional level thru URBI in 1994 – 2000 and thru CDI in 2005 – 2009
• Project design management
• Consultant for Council of Europe DG II – Democracy, Regionalisation administrative reform in Romania, 2013
• Cooperation with DG REGIO in the appraisal, implementation and monitoring of cohesion policy interventions 2014-2020

Košice-West
Mayor of the city ward (2011 – 2014)

CESCI Budapest
Vice-chairman (2009 – 2014)

Košice 2013 – European Capital of Culture
Manager responsible for investment projects (2010)

Carpathian Development Institute, Košice
Project manager, consultation and analytical work, project design management, research, preparation of development plans, education, and training (2005 – 2010)

Governor of Košice region, Head of the Slovak delegation in the Committee of the Regions EU (2001 – 2005)

Member of Slovak Parliament (1998 – 2001, 2006 – 2010)

Mayor of the City of Košice (1993 – 1994)

Vice-Mayor of the City of Košice (1991 – 1992, 1994 – 1998)

INORGA Košice
Analytical work, software projects for the corporate sector (1985 – 1991)

Inžinierske stavby Košice
Software engineering (1981 – 1985)

Studies

P.J. Šafárik University Košice
Faculty of Natural Science, Mathematics

City University Bratislava
Effective Manager Course

Study tour in the public sector in the USA

University of Birmingham, Great Britain
Course ‘How to Improve Public Service Performance’

Technical University Košice
Finances in Regional Development, PhD

Language proficiency

Slovak
English