Mr. Richard Sulík was appointed Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic after the parliamentary elections in June this year. Apart from this assignment, he is also founding member and the Chairman of the government political party Freedom and Solidarity. From 1991 he was the Director of the FaxCOPY Company until 2002, when he became Advisor to the Finance Minister Ivan Miloš responsible for the elaboration of the “flat tax“ concept. In 2006 he became Advisor of another Finance Minister Ján Počiatek.