Miroslav Wlachovsky - SVU Vice President

Miroslav Wlachovsky was born on February 3, 1970 in Bratislava, Slovakia. He studied philosophy-sociology at Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. During his studies he worked as freelance writer for Czech weekly magazine Reflex and Radio Free Europe. After graduation, in 1994, he started to work at Slovak Institute for International Studies (SIIS), a think-tank attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. He was responsible for editorial policy of the institute and worked as editor-in-chief of quarterly International Issues.

In 1995, during autocratic government of Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar, he left the SIIS and joined Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA), an independent citizen association focused on foreign policy and international issues, led by former Czechoslovak ambassador to Austria Mrs. Magda Vasaryova. Together with a group of former colleagues they established the Research Center of SFPA. He became his first director.After victory of democratic opposition in elections 1998 he was asked to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On November 9, 1998 he became Director of the Department of Analysis and Policy Planning at the ministry. In his new position he was responsible for preparing and finalizing concepts and strategic foreign policy materials for the Slovak government. He also worked as a foreign policy speechwriter for the leadership of the ministry and the Prime Minister office. During the period of Slovakia?s preparation for NATO membership he was a chairman of interagency committee for public relations and he was major contributor to NATO Public Awareness Campaign Strategy. In July 2001 he joined the team of Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda as his Foreign Policy Advisor. As PM?s advisor he was responsible for preparation of PM?s foreign policy agenda and speechwriting. He was part of a Slovak delegation to NATO summit in Prague, where Slovakia was officially invited to become member of the alliance as well as EU summit in Copenhagen in December 2002, where Slovakia finalized its negotiations of EU membership.

Since February 2003 Miroslav Wlachovsky worked as Political Counselor at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, DC; in 2005 he was promoted to DCM..