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Miroslav Beblavý

Country of residence/work
  • Slovakia
Geographical scope
  • Czechia
  • European Union
  • Poland
Level of education focus
  • Adult education
  • Early childhood education and care (ECEC)
  • Higher education
  • School education
Thematic areas covered
  • Digital education and technological innovation
  • Education-to-work transitions, education and labour market
  • Governance of education
  • Investment in education, economic impact of education
  • Lifelong learning
  • Whole-school and whole-system approaches and partnerships in education
Methodological expertise
  • Economic studies, economic modelling and econometrics, counterfactual analysis
  • Foresights
  • Qualitative methods
  • Stakeholder consultations
Organisation
CB ESPRI

Contact

Miroslav Beblavy is a Slovak investor, startup founder, economist, author and former politician. Between 2016 and 2019, he was the Deputy Scientific Coordinator of EENEE and between 2020 and 2024, he was the Scientific Coordinator of EENEE. He is currently CEO of CB ESPRI, an impact investment fund, CEO of Zhiva, a behavioral health startup, and adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and Hertie School in Berlin. Between 2010 and 2020, he served three terms as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia. Between 2002 and 2006, he held the post of state secretary at the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family. He also worked as Senior Research Fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (2010-2019).