Zuzana Čaputová

A lawyer and former President of the Slovak Republic, she served as head of state from 2019 to 2024. During her presidency, she also focused on protecting democracy and human rights.

After leaving office, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University in the United States from 2024 to 2025.

Before entering politics, she worked in the non-profit sector, focusing on the rule of law, transparency and environmental protection. She came to wider public attention through her legal battle against a landfill in Pezinok, for which she received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016. In 2019, she received the European Award for Political Culture.