| Office: | Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport |
| Primeminister: | Robert Fico |
| Termstart: | 25 November 2014 |
| Term End: | 23 March 2016 |
| Predecessor: | Peter Pellegrini |
| Successor: | Peter Plavčan |
| Birth Date: | 13 December 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia(now Slovakia) |
| Education: | |
| Children: | 1 |
Juraj Draxler (born 13 December 1975 in Bratislava) is a Slovak Political Scientist and Politician. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sports of Slovakia as a nominee, but not a member, of the Direction – Slovak Social Democracy party.[1]
Draxler studied integrated social sciences at the Jacobs University Bremen and Political Science at University of York. He worked as a Reuters correspondent, Centre for European Policy Studies researcher and professor at the Anglo-American University and the University of New York in Prague.[2]
In 2014 he became advisor of the Minister of Education. Between September and November 2014, he served as the State Secretary for Education under the Education Minister Peter Pellegrini.[3] After Pellegrini became the Speaker of the National Council (Slovakia), Draxler replaced him as a minister.[4] He did not return to government after the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election.[5]
Following his terms as a minister, Draxler worked as a Head of the Institute of Strategic Analysis at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he announced birth of a daughter with his long term partner from Bulgaria.[6] In 2016, published a novel called Petra.[7]