Ľubomír Dolgoš (20 August 1956 – 29 December 2004) was a Slovak politician, educator and economist. He was former Minister of Administration and Privatization of National Property of the Slovak Republic in 1992–1993.

Biography

Dolgoš was born on 20 August 1956 in

Podbrezová Podbrezová (; hu, Zólyombrézó) is a large village and municipality in Brezno District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia, around 10 km west of the district seat town, Brezno. History The village is actually made of ...

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

. ⁣He graduated from the Faculty of National Economy at the

University of Economics in Bratislava The University of Economics in Bratislava ( sk, Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave) is the oldest university of economics in Slovakia. History The university was established in 1940 as a private university under the name Vysoká obchodná ško ...

(1979–1983). He was known primarily as an economist, but he did not shy away from the role of a public figure, politician, lecturer and researcher at the University of Economics. Before entering public life, Ľ. Dolgoš worked at the Institute of Economics of the

Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences ( sk, Slovenská akadémia vied, or SAV) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after World War II, and then reestab ...

President of the Slovak Antimonopoly Office

After 1990 Ľ. Dolgoš devoted himself not only to economic theory, but also to practice. He was at the birth of the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (PÚ SR). In August 1991, the

Public Against Violence Public Against Violence ( sk, Verejnosť proti násiliu, VPN) was a political movement established in Bratislava, Slovakia in November 1989. It was the Slovak counterpart of the Czech Civic Forum. Velvet Revolution Public Against Violence (VPN ...

(VPN) leadership tried to remove him from this position. The formal reason was the claim that he had failed to create a competitive environment in internal trade. At the end of February 1992 Ľ. Dolgoš himself resigned from the post of Chairman of the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic. As a reason for his resignation he stated that "the adoption of effective antitrust policy measures in the process of

privatization Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

of the Slovak Republic was impracticable" and that he had "discovered very close links between politicians – members of the ODÚ-

VPN A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. The be ...

and the IPF".

Political career

Dolgoš was a minister in 1992–1993 in the government of

Vladimír Mečiar Vladimír Mečiar (; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia three times, from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994 and from 1994 to 1998. He was the leader of the People's Party - Movement for a Democr ...

. He resigned from politics on 15 June 1993. Before that, he served as a member of the HZDS in the Czechoslovak Federal Parliament. After leaving politics, he worked for some time in the Association of Slovak Entrepreneurs (ZPS). He was a delegate of the ZPS at the World Economic Forum (SEF) in Davos in 1994. For a short time he worked in the editorial office of

Hospodárske noviny ''Hospodárske noviny'' (abbreviated ''HN''; meaning ''Economic Newspaper'' in English) is a daily economic newspaper published in Slovakia. It is owned by MAFRA Slovakia, a media company based in Bratislava, Slovakia. History and profile ''Hos ...

. He was one of the few Slovak economists to study at Georgetown University in the USA. In 2001 he became involved in the

Alliance of the New Citizen The Alliance of the New Citizen (, ANO) was a liberal political party in Slovakia existing from 2001 to 2011. The acronym was a pun on ''áno'', Slovak for "yes". It was founded and led by media entrepreneur Pavol Rusko. The party positioned itse ...

s (ANO), of which he was the vice-chairman for economics until February 2002. He taught at the Faculty of Business Management of the University of Economics in

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approximately 140% o ...

. He died on 29 December 2004 in Bratislava at the age of 48 from severe injuries sustained in a car accident.

References

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