Vladimir Bartovic

Vladimír Bartovic is the director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in Prague. In 2014, he was appointed as an external advisor on EU policies to the minister of foreign affairs of the Czech Republic. Previously, he served as a director of strategic planning and analysis at the Slovak Republic’s ministry of foreign affairs, a member of the programme council of the Czech-Polish Forum, and as a board member for several non-governmental organisations. He holds an MA in international trade and international politics from the University of Economics, Prague and lectures on topical EU issues at the Institute of Public Administration and the Czech National Bank. His main areas of expertise include EU affairs, enlargement, and foreign policy; economic development; the economic and monetary union; and Slovak foreign, domestic, and economic policy.