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Remembering our Alumna Martina Lubyová

21 November, 2023

Former Slovak Minister of Education Martina Lubyová died on November 20, 2023 after a long illness. The prominent Slovak scientist and graduate from the very first CERGE-EI PhD cohort was 56 years old.

Martina Lubyová was born in 1967 in Bratislava into the family of the physicist and former long-time chairman of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Štefan Luby. She graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Comenius University in 1991 with a master's degree in biophysics. She received her Doctor of Laws degree in 1999 at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University. She received her PhD in statistics in the same year at the Faculty of Economic Informatics of the University of Economics in Bratislava. In 1991 she began studying for her second doctorate in economics with CERGE-EI's very first PhD cohort. She graduated from CERGE-EI in 2002.

In her professional career she worked at domestic and international institutions such as Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and OECD in Paris. For ten years (2000-2010) she worked at the International Labour Organization, first as an Employment Development Specialist in the Subregional Office for South Asia based in New Delhi, and since 2002 as an Employment Development Specialist in the Subregional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia based in Moscow. In 2009, she became the Director of this office.

She had been an independent researcher at the Institute of Prognostics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) since 2010 and its Deputy Director since 2012. In 2013 she became the head of the Institute of Prognostics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Subsequently, she became the Deputy Director of the Centre for Social and Psychological Sciences of the SAS. Since 2017, she had been a member of the Presidium of the SAS. She was also a member-academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Martina Lubyová was also involved in teaching. She taught statistics and social statistics at the Faculty of Economic Informatics of the University of Economics in Bratislava. She was a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and a member of the OECD Expert Group on Migration. She authored and co-authored more than 60 scientific publications focused mainly on employment and labour market economics, migration, integration, and lifelong learning.

CERGE-EI expresses its deepest sympathy to Martina Lubyová's family and friends.