Michal Šimečka

Michal Šimečka (born May 10, 1984 in Bratislava) is a Slovak politician. He is the Vice-Chairman of the political party Progressive Slovakia,[1] and was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election.[2] He is the son of journalist Martin Milan Šimečka and a grandson of philosopher, writer and dissident Milan Šimečka.

Michal Šimečka
Member of the European Parliament
for Slovakia
Assumed office
25 May 2019
Personal details
Born (1984-05-10) 10 May 1984
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Political partyProgressive Slovakia
Alma materCharles University
University of Oxford
Occupationresearcher, foreign policy analyst

He graduated from the Charles University in 2006. He was involved in journalism, writing for SME (2002‒2004) and Financial Times (2004‒2006). He obtained a master's degree at St Antony's College in 2008. He obtained a PhD at Nuffield College in 2012[3]. Šimečka worked as an analyst in London as well as a lecturer in Prague and Bratislava. He was an adviser on foreign policy in the European Parliament from 2011 to 2014. Šimečka also worked in the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels from 2013. In 2015 he became a researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague.

References
  1. Progresívne Slovensko (in Slovak)
  2. "Who are the new Slovak MEPs?". The Slovak Spectator. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  3. "M.Phil Michal Šimečka, PhD. (Oxon)" (in Czech). iir.cz. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
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