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Ambassador

Marek Lisánsky
Ambassador

Work experience

  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

    06/2018

  • National Council of the Slovak Republic Foreign Policy
    Advisor to the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic

    2015 – 2018

  • Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Division of Defence Policy
    ​​​​​​​Political Director General/POLDIR

    2014 – 2015

  • Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
    Department of Analysis and Policy Planning

    2014

  • Consul General of the Slovak Republic in Krakow, Poland

    2009 – 2014

  • Representative of the Slovak Republic in the Steering Committee for the International Project to Establish a Memorial Site in the Area of the Former Nazi Extermination Camp in Sobibór

    2008 – 2014

  • Government Office of the Slovak Republic
    Division of National Minorities and Human Rights
    Director General Secretary of the Government Council of the Slovak Republic for National Minorities and Ethnic Groups
    Secretary of the Government Council of the Slovak Republic for Non-governmental and Non-profit organisations
    Advisor of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
    Representative of the Government of the Slovak Republic in the Council for Compensation of Holocaust Victims

    2007 – 2009

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic
    Human Rights Department
    ​​​​​​​Deputy Director; Deputy Head of the Interministerial Coordination Committee for the Presidency of the Slovak Republic in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and Organising Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic for the Presidency of the Slovak Republic in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

    2006 – 2007

  • Consulate General of the Slovak Republic in Krakow, Poland

    2002 – 2006

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic
    Human Rights Department Secretary of the Intergovernmental Slovak
    ​​​​​​​Hungarian Minority Joint Committee

    1999 – 2002

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Honours

  • Knight´s cross of the Order of Pius IX (2021) – awarded by Holy See

  • Knights Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2014) – awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland 

  • Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (2022)

  • Honour „Honoris Gratia“ of the Mayor of Krakow (2014)

  • Gold Medal „Polonia Minor“ of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (2014)

  • Golden Giewont Cross of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (2015)

Education

  • Special Certificate in European Studies, Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Austria

    2001

  • Faculty of Law, Pavol Jozef Šafárik Univerzity, Košice, Slovakia
    Doctoral Level

    2000

  • Faculty of Law, Pavol Jozef Šafárik Univerzity, Košice, Slovakia Master Degree 

    1994 – 1999

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Internships and Study visits

  • Szkola Praw Czlowieka - Warsaw, Poland

    09/2002

  • Preventing Ethnic Conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe - George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies

    11/2001

  • European Academy Bolzano, Italy
    „Protection of National Minorities“

    09/1999

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Others

  • Founding member of ILA Slovakia (International Law Association)
  • Founding member of the Slovak Society of International Law

 

Languages

  • English
  • Polish (State Exam – Certificate C/2)
  • German
  • Russian

 

Publications and Scientific Activities – selection of Articles

Judicial Revue

  • Fundamental principles of the preferential regime formulated by the Council of Europe - European Commission for Democracy through Law.
  • The Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and its implementation in the Slovak Republic.

 

Legal Horizon

  • The International Criminal Court and the Slovak Republic.

 

Slovak and European Law

  • Historical Development of the issue of so-called Preferential Regime by the Member States.
  • The basic Treaties of the Slovak Republic with neighbouring countries as a framework of our bilateral relations with particular focus on the Status of National Minorities.
  • Objectives and principles of the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and its principles in Slovak Republic.