Pavol Kosnáč

Pavol Kosnáč is the director of the DEKK Institute in Bratislava, which conducts research on social cohesion, polarisation and trust. He is also the only Slovak expert witness on religious extremism. He is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in London. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, having previously studied Religious Studies at Oxford and Bratislava.