Martina Hrvolova

Previously, Martina served for the Slovak Foreign Service from 2005 to 2015. During that time, she was posted to the Slovak Missions to NATO and EU in Brussels, Belgium, primarily advising on public affairs, NATO Partnerships, and EU Enlargement. Prior to that, she served as the executive secretary of the Slovak Chairmanship of the Council of Europe.

Martina enjoys digging into community roadblocks and solving them with a blend of innovation, relationship building, compassion, and decisive leadership. She has facilitated, designed, managed, and lead strategic change initiatives comprised of multiple levers, cutting across research, coalition building, advocacy, regulatory reform, and organizational management.

She is a recipient of the Thomas Buergenthal scholarship from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she earned her LLM in international and comparative law. Martina also holds a Ph.D. in civil law from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She previously spent time volunteering through OSCE election observation missions in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. She speaks Slovak, English, Czech, French, and Russian. She is a certified compliance & ethics professional with the U.S. Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and a graduate of the U.S. Chamber Executive-Level Institute for Organization Management.