H. E. Ľubomír Galko has been appointed Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic in July this year. Prior to that assignment (from 2004) he worked as the Director of DONA DN Company (JCS) in Bratislava. He is a member and a Vice President of the political party Freedom and Solidarity, which won entry to the National Council of the Slovak Republic in the parliamentary election in June this year. Before entering politics, he worked as a manager in charge of network of retail & wholesale stores and software applications development (1993 – 2001), Director of Kaufland Hypermarket (2001 – 2003) and from 2003 to 2004 he held the position of the Deputy Director in the Interfluct Slovakia Company.

H.E. Božinović graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he earned Master's and Doctor's Degrees. In 1990 he became the Chairman of the Recruiting Committee of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia. Later in 1994, he worked as Senior Adviser at the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia. Between 1997 and 1999, he served as Deputy Head and Head of Department for Neighbouring States at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia with the rank of a Minister–Counsellor.  In 1999 he was the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia with the rank of an Ambassador. He has been the head of Mission of the Republic of Croatia to NATO in 2005. In September 2008 he was appointed State Secretary for European integration and in July 2009 was appointed State Secretary for political affairs. In December 2010 he has become minister of Defence of Croatia.