Pavol Demeš

Pavol Demeš (* 1956 ) is a former Slovak foreign minister and since 2002 director of the German Marshall Fund 's office in Bratislava.

Life

He studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava, at Charles University in Prague and spent a year studying at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. The bio- medical in 1989 became a key figure in the transformation process of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For one year Pavol Demeš was Foreign Minister from 1991, then foreign policy advisor to Kováč 1993-1997. He participated in the deselection Vladimír Meciar and the founding of the Otpor movement in Serbia. In addition, Pavol Demeš plays a role for NGOs and is also a passionate photographer. By visiting a colloquium in Ukraine in 2004, he came into contact with Pora! , One of the key groups of the Orange Revolution, he advised then.

Awards

Writings

• Civil society as a motor of European integration: perspectives of cooperation between German and Slovak non-governmental organizations,