Dušan Sloboda, an analyst for the Conservative Institute.

He studied regional geography at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2001 – 2004, he worked at the European Integration Department, the Ministry of Construction and Regional Development. In 2004 he was a member of the DG Regional Policy at the European Commission in Brussels (In-service Traineeship). Since 2002 he has been an external student of doctor studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, dealing with geography and cartography and he works on a dissertation on Geographical Characteristics of Regional Disparities in Slovakia.

He has worked for the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik as an analyst since 2004, and specialises in the fields of regional development (regional policies of Slovakia and the EU), public administration reform (fiscal decentralisation and municipal reform, regionalisation in Slovakia) and also focuses on some aspects of Slovakia and the European Union relations. He is a co-author of the publication Comments on the Draft of the European Union Constitution (2003) and of a chapter dealing with regional policy in the publication Slovakia on the Way to the European Union: Chapters and Context (2003). He is responsible for development of active co-operation of the Conservative Institute with foreign partners and establishment of the Library of Conservatism.