1. Curriculum vitae

2. Professional career
    In Czechoslovakia  In Slovakia 

3. Honorary Posts

4. References

Jozef Šesták (born 9 November 1945 in Michalovce) is a Slovak diplomat and since December 2009 the Consul General of the Slovak Republic in Istanbul with the diplomatic rank of Ambassador.

Curriculum vitae

He spent part of his youth in Košice. He graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava, later obtained academic degree PhD. He was a funding member of the student organization AIESEC in Slovakia, first Vice President of AIESEC Czechoslovakia and first President of AIESEC at the University of Economics in Bratislava (1965-1967). He was cofounder and the first Vice President of the Association of university students in Slovakia (ZVS 1968-1969), which organized memorial student manifestations in Bradlo and Devín (1968).

Professional career

In Czechoslovakia

As a foreign trade graduate of the University of Economics in Bratislava, he started working at the Ministry of Trade of the Slovak Republic (1970) and then at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Trade in Prague (1972-1979). In the years 1974-1979 he became the Deputy of the Commercial attaché at the Embassy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR) in Washington D.C. (United States). Later, he worked at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ČSSR in Prague. Gradually he had reached the position of Ambassador Counsellor at the Permanent mission of ČSSR in international organizations in Vienna and Deputy Head of Delegation of ČSSR at the disarmament negotiations on Reduction of the Conventional Forces in Central Europe (MBFR) (1983-1988). Afterwards he acted as expert of the Czechoslovak delegation for negotiations on withdrawal of Soviet troops from the territory of ČSSR (1990). He held the function of the Head of delegation of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic with the diplomatic rank of Ambassador at international negotiations on Open skies in Canada and in Hungary (1990).

In Slovakia

After the establishment of the Government of the Slovak Republic he acted as external counsellor of the first Deputy Prime Minister of Slovak Republic for foreign policy and international economics questions (1990-1991). From 1994 to 1998 he held the function of the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In 1995, as original author of Economic Dimension of Diplomacy, he introduced a new orientation of diplomacy towards economy and trade to enforce economic and commercial interests of countries. In 1996 and 1997 he initiated and organized two world conferences for senior representatives of Ministries of Foreign Affairs from over 50 countries with key note speaker H.E. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former foreign minister of Germany, on the subject of the Economic Dimension of Diplomacy. He was leader of the negotiation team of the Slovak Republic, which negotiated the Treaty on Good Neighbour Relations and Friendly Cooperation between the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Hungary signed in Paris on 19 March 1995. He worked as Deputy Chairman of the Government Council for the Promotion of Export, as member of the Government Council for the integration of the Slovak Republic into the European Union and a member of the Government Council for the accession of the Slovak Republic to OECD. He worked as the Head of the negotiation team of the Government of the Slovak Republic in the negotiations with the Republic of Hungary about possible off-court settlement of the dispute regarding the Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros Waterworks (1996-1997), just like during the accession talks of Slovak Republic to the OECD, EU and NATO (1995-1998). In the position of the State Secretary of the MFA SR personally contributed to raising Holocaust Memorial in Bratislava (Rybné square, 1995), which was highly appreciated by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Dr. Shimon Peres in May 2002. He was the chief negotiator for the accession of the Slovak Republic into the European Union (1997-1998). In 1998 he became the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Slovak Republic in the Republic of Austria, later Ambassador, Senior State Counsellor (2002-2009). He is the author of the Methodology of the Peaceful Solution of the Middle East Crises, which he presented in 2005 to the experts of the European Commission in Brussels and to the Austria Presidency of the EU in 2006. The initiative of Ambassador Jozef Šesták was appreciated by High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Mr. Javier Solana on 25 February 2005. His wife PhDr. Anna Šestáková, born Chrobáková, originally from Hybe, niece of the writer Dobroslav Chrobák, is an expert for diplomatic protocol. The couple has two daughters.^[1]

Since December 2009 Jozef Šesták has been posted as Consul General of the Slovak Republic in Istanbul.^[2]

On 9 February 2016, the Scientific Council of Slovak Academy of Sciences awarded Ambassador Jozef Sestak, PhD. the Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for the support of science for professional support of the development of scientific projects, innovations and High Tech companies in international relations between Slovakia and foreign countries.

Honorary Posts

• 2014 - 2016: Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Istanbul Consular Corps – ICC (the largest consular corps in the world)
• 2004: Presidential candidate in the elections of the President of the Slovak Republic
• 2000 - 2002: Honorary Member of the Academic Board of the Faculty of Trade of the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1997 - 2000: Member of the Academic Board of the Faculty of Trade of the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1965 - 1967: Founding member of AIESEC Slovakia, first LC President of AIESEC Bratislava and first Vice-President of AIESEC Czechoslovakia

References

• Bud walton
• Budweis
• Budweiser
• Budweiser Budvar
• Budweiser Events Center
• Budweiser Ferret
• Budweiser Frogs
• Budweiser Gardens
• Budweiser Lizards
• Budweiser Rocket
• Budweiser Rocket Car
• Budweiser Stag Brewing Company Ltd.
• Budweiser trademark dispute
• Budwig
• Bud Wildman
• Bud Wilkinson
• Budwiser
• Budwiser beer
• Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
• Budyonnovsk hostage crisis
• Budyonny
• Budyonny horse
• Bud Yorkin
• Budzikid
• Budziszyn