Peter Lizák

Peter Lizák (born August 9, 1962 ) is a Slovak diplomat .

Life

He studied from 1980 to 1981 at the University of Economics in Pressburg . From 1981 to 1986 he studied at the Moscow Institute for International Relations . In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Law Faculty of the Bratislava Comenius University Dr. jur.

In 1987 he found a job in the commercial department of the Slovak company AVEX, before moving to the government office of the Slovak Republic as a senior advisor in 1990. In 1991 he went to the Slovak Ministry of International Relations as chief of protocol. He carried out this task until 1992. From 1993 to 1996 he was the first secretary of the Slovak embassy in Switzerland in Bern . In 1997 he returned to Slovakia and was first deputy head and then head of the cabinet of the State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1998 he was deployed to the Slovak embassy in Austria in Vienna . In 2002 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of the Department for External Relations and EU Institutions. In 2003 he became Head of Cabinet of the Foreign Minister until he took over the head of the Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the OSCE from 2005 to 2007 . In 2006 and 2007 he was also Head of the OSCE Securities Commission.

From 2008 to 2012 he was the Slovak ambassador to Austria in Vienna. From 2013 to 2015 he was director of the department for analysis and planning in the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia.

On July 8, 2015, he was accredited as ambassador to Germany and held the office until 2019.

In addition to Slovak , Peter Lizák speaks Bulgarian , German , English , French , Russian , Czech and Hungarian .

Web links

• Diplomatic greetings from Slovakia on www.landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de
• HE DR. PETER LIZÁK at www.diplomatisches-magazin.de (English)