MÁRIO NICOLINI
Mário Nicolini is co-founder of the Forum of the World’s Religions – Slovakia. Mário has long been committed to empowering the next generation of young leaders for building a new, more confident, diverse, wide open, multi-religious future for Slovakia. As a national security professional, Mário focuses on foreign policy and national security challenges ranging from hard to soft power. He advised two Ministers and six State Secretaries of Defense on strategic issues facing Slovakia, including troop deployments, defense transformation, security sector reform, and public outreach. Working for the Value for Money Division of the Ministry of Finance, he led Slovakia’s first defense spending review. He is also engaged in initiatives aimed at increasing the resilience of our societies against extremism, disinformation, and propaganda. He currently works in Riga, Latvia, as Slovakia’s senior expert in the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence. Before joining public service, he worked with the consulting company McGuireWoods LLP in Washington, DC.
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