Ján Oravec CSc. is a Slovakeconomist and current secretary of state of Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic. He is the president of The Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia. In 2004, he became a member of the European committee and in 2013 he became a member of its presidium.
Career
2003 – present: president, The Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia, the first organisation of private businesses in a modern history of Slovakia, after 1989,
2004 – present: a member of a Presidium of The NationalUnion of Employers, the most representative organisation of employers in Slovakia,
1999–2002: a Chief of Strategy at the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic.
1992–2013: a founding father of The F. A. Hayek Foundation Bratislava, and The Slovak Taxpayers Association, one of the most successful and the most respected NGOs in a Central and Eastern Europe.
About
Oravec graduated in 1987 from Commenius University in Bratislava, The Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in 1994 and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, US, in 1993–1995. In 1996 he received his PhD degree in economics at theInstitute of Slovak and World Economy in Bratislava. He started his professional career at the Institute of Economics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1987. In the beginning of 90s he was active in financial sector. In 1999–2002 Oravec was working as a chief of strategy at the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic. During that period he served as a chairman and member of various supervisory boards, a chairman of a board of directors and a vice-chairman of the Government Council for Science and Technology. In October 2003 he was elected as a president of The Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia, the first organisation of private entrepreneurs in Slovakia after a collapse of communism. He is a member of a Presidium of The National Union of Employers, the most representative organisation of employers in Slovakia. Since 2004 he represents Slovak employers in the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. Since 2004 he is a member of a scientific board of a Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, The University of Economics in Prague, and a member of an industrial board of The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He is a founding father of The F. A. Hayek Foundation Bratislava, and The Slovak Taxpayers Association, since 2004 he is also a member of an academic board of a Liberal Institute in Prague. He has his own business in consulting, focusing on regulatory impact assessments, sectoral analysis, macroeconomic analysis, economic outlooks, etc. He writes articles, gives lectures, TV interviews, and public speeches on various topics. He lives in Bratislava. He is married and has two children.
