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Martina Lubyová is currently the Slovak Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport. Before her nomination to that post, she served as the Deputy Director of the Slovak Academy of Sciences' Centre for Social and Psychological Sciences. Immediately prior to that position she served as Director of the Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. She is also on the teaching staff at the Economics University in Bratislava's Faculty of Economic Informatics.

After completing her PhD at CERGE-EI in 2002, she worked at the International Labor Organization (ILO) as an Employment Development Specialist in the ILO's Sub-regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Moscow, Russia. In 2008 she was appointed Director of that office. Wishing to return to more academic research, in summer 2010 she took a position in her native Slovakia at the Institute of Forecasting at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on labor markets in CEE/CIS countries along with issues of regional migration, human capital development, poverty reduction and informal economies.