Speaker

Jana Kobzova is the foreign policy adviser to the President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Čaputová. Before joining the President’s team, she worked as the policy director at Rasmussen Global, a political consultancy group established by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmusen. She also worked for the Brussels-based European Endowment for Democracy, where she developed and oversaw the EED grant-making in Eastern Europe with a focus on Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus. Prior to that, Kobzova was a policy fellow at the London office of the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank. In Slovakia, she led the Belarus democratisation programme at the Pontis Foundation. She has co-authored several books and reports on EU policy-making, Eastern Europe and democratisation processes in the region.