German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Director of Bratislava Office
Expertise:
• NATO’s Strategic Concept
• Meaning and Importance of Article 5
• NATO/EU – Russia Relations
• NATO Enlargement
Pavol Demeš has been the Director of the German Marshall Fund for Central and Eastern Europe of the United States since January 2000, and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Previously he served as the Executive Director of the Slovak Academic Information Agency-Service Center for the Third Sector, a leading NGO in the country. He also served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Slovak Republic (1993-97), and from 1991 to 1992 he was the Slovak Minister of International Relations. An internationally recognized NGO leader, Mr. Demeš was elected spokesperson of the Gremium of the Third Sector, a volunteer advocacy coalition, and has served on the boards of national and international associations and foundations. In 1999 he was awarded six-month public policy research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D. C. Prior to the "Velvet Revolution" in November 1989, Demeš was a bio-medical researcher at Comenius University in Bratislava. He is a graduate of the Charles University in Prague (1980). He received the EU-US Democracy and Civil Society Award (in 1998), the USAID Democracy and Governance Award (1999), the Royal Dutch decoration Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau (2005), the Yugoslav Star of First Class (2005).
• NATO’s Strategic Concept
• Meaning and Importance of Article 5
• NATO/EU – Russia Relations
• NATO Enlargement
Pavol Demeš has been the Director of the German Marshall Fund for Central and Eastern Europe of the United States since January 2000, and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Previously he served as the Executive Director of the Slovak Academic Information Agency-Service Center for the Third Sector, a leading NGO in the country. He also served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Slovak Republic (1993-97), and from 1991 to 1992 he was the Slovak Minister of International Relations. An internationally recognized NGO leader, Mr. Demeš was elected spokesperson of the Gremium of the Third Sector, a volunteer advocacy coalition, and has served on the boards of national and international associations and foundations. In 1999 he was awarded six-month public policy research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D. C. Prior to the "Velvet Revolution" in November 1989, Demeš was a bio-medical researcher at Comenius University in Bratislava. He is a graduate of the Charles University in Prague (1980). He received the EU-US Democracy and Civil Society Award (in 1998), the USAID Democracy and Governance Award (1999), the Royal Dutch decoration Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau (2005), the Yugoslav Star of First Class (2005).
