Ján Dráb

Ján Dráb is an experienced policy analyst and project manager, and at KInIT he manages the European Digital and Innovation Hub – Hopero. He holds a PhD in International Business from the University of Economics in Bratislava, with a dissertation on economic development in the Western Balkans. In 2016 he joined the Institute for Environmental Policy at the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic. 

He spent eight years at the Institute, the last three as its Director. In that role he led the ministry’s analytical unit, represented Slovakia at the OECD, and drove major policy initiatives across climate change, circular economy, green transition, and nature protection. He coordinated inter-ministerial teams, contributed to key national strategies, and for two years he also served as Chairman of the Commission for the Development of Analytical Units in Slovakia, where he oversaw the peer review process of their outputs. He also led the development of the country’s beverage container deposit-refund system. He joined KInIT in 2024.