Michal Šimečka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michal Šimečka

Slovak politician

Date of Birth: 10-May-1984

Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Profession: politician, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Michal Šimecka (born May 10, 1984 in Bratislava) is a Slovak politician.
He is the Vice-Chairman of the political party Progressive Slovakia, and was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election.
He is the son of journalist Martin Milan Šimecka and a grandson of philosopher, writer and dissident Milan Šimecka. He graduated from the Charles University in 2006.
He was involved in journalism, writing for SME (2002?2004) and Financial Times (2004?2006).
He obtained a master's degree at St Antony's College in 2008.
He obtained a PhD at Nuffield College in 2012.
Šimecka worked as an analyst in London as well as a lecturer in Prague and Bratislava.
He was an adviser on foreign policy in the European Parliament from 2011 to 2014.
Šimecka also worked in the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels from 2013.
In 2015 he became a researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague.