Lukáš Parízek

Lukáš Parízek
State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Assumed office
23 March 2016
Minister Miroslav Lajčák
Preceded by Igor Slobodník
Personal details
Born (1986-09-09) 9 September 1986
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
(now Slovakia)
Political party Slovak National Party
Alma mater Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Lukáš Parízek (born 9 September 1986, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak politician and current State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic.[1] He was appointed on 23 March 2016 following the Slovak parliamentary elections on 5 March 2016.[2]

Early life and education

Lukáš Parízek was born and raised in Bratislava. He completed his secondary education in 2006 at the Gymnázium Ivana Horvátha in Bratislava. Between 2006 and 2012 Parízek studied diplomacy at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in the Russian Federation where he obtained both a bachelor’s degree (2010) and a master’s degree (2012). He returned to the Slovak Republic to serve in the State administration and joined the National Slovak Party, where he campaigned at the 2016 parliamentary elections. Aside from his native Slovak he also speaks English, Russian, German and notions of Arabic.

Professional career

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Portfolio: security policy, economic diplomacy, development assistance, international organizations as well as bilateral relations with partner countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and non-EU territories. [3]

Economic diplomacy

Given the fact that Slovakia belongs among countries with the most open economies in the World, Lukáš Parízek is responsible within his portfolio for the adequate diversification of the Slovak economic diplomacy outside the Europe. “We need to reflect upon trends and development dynamics of certain countries. Regions such as South America, Asia, notably China, but also Africa are relevant. The latter has big potential in energy and the Slovak Republic can provide high added value – we went through a similar development phase and we have expertise and technology.“ [4] For this reason Parízek usually brings with him a delegation of Slovak business people on his official visits abroad. As an example he was the first Slovak official to lead a business delegation to Nigeria in 2016.

Lukáš Parízek at presentation of Aeromobil

Development segment of Foreign Affairs Council of the EU

Lukáš Parízek in his capacity attends regularly the meetings of the EU development cooperation ministers at the Foreign Affairs Council of the EU currently chaired by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. As a successful achievement of the Slovak diplomacy during the first Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union (July - December 2016) can be mentioned the swift and rapid coordination of the EU28 Member States of the Council to deliver a common position towards the establishment of the European Fund for Sustainable Development as part of the External Investment Plan on 28 November 2016.

Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency

Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Secretariat, Vienna, Austria

References


  1. ↑ http://www.mzv.sk/web/en/ministry/state_secretaries/lukas_parizek
  2. ↑ http://www.rokovania.sk/File.aspx/ViewDocumentHtml/Mater-Dokum-198548?prefixFile=m_
  3. ↑ http://cepaforum.org/Speakers/2016/Lukas-Parizek
  4. ↑ https://ekonomika.sme.sk/c/20515645/ekonomicky-potencial-pre-slovensko-je-v-azii-afrike-aj-juznej-amerike.html#ixzz4iS8YWS5t
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