Radoslav Repa

Counsellor, Cyber Security and Trust Service

Radoslav Repa has a broad experience in digital, telco and cyber domain. In 2009 he joined the Permanent Representation of the Slovakia to the EU in Brussels as a digital and cyber attaché. During the Slovak presidency in the Council of the EU (2016), he chaired two working group, first on telecommunications and information society, second on cyber affairs, where he managed to adopt a reinforced mandate for what is now the Council´s horizontal working party on cyber issues. During the intensive year of Slovak diplomacy in 2019, he was in charge of the flawless run of digital dossiers in the OECD´s Council of Ministers and in the OSCE.                   

In 2019 Radoslav took a position of a Director General for the Digital Agenda Division at Ministry of Informatization focused mainly on European digital agenda and novel technologies. He drafted the Strategy of Digital Transformation of Slovakia, the digital chapters of the Programme Slovakia 2021-2027 and of the Resilience and Recovery Facility. Radoslav also helped to establish the innovative platforms in Slovakia such as the Digital Coalition, AISlovaKIA, the National Supercomputing Centre or the National Centre for Quantum Technologies. He also finalized the new National Broadband Access Plan as well as the DESI Index implementation in national policies.

From 2021 Radoslav has been working for the National Security Authority. As a head of the Institute for Security Studies he dealt with the implementation of the National Cyber Security Strategy and the evaluation of hybrid threats. Since November 2022 he has been performing a diplomatic mission again as a Cyber Counsellor representing Slovakia in Brussels.