Milan Ftáčnik | |
Order: | Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport |
Term Start: | 30 October 1998 |
Term End: | 17 April 2002 |
Predecessor: | Eva Slavkovská |
Successor: | Peter Ponický |
Order1: | Mayor of Bratislava |
Term Start1: | 21 December 2010 |
Term End1: | 11 December 2014 |
Predecessor1: | Andrej Ďurkovský |
Successor1: | Ivo Nesrovnal |
Order2: | Mayor of Petržalka (Borough of Bratislava) |
Term Start2: | 2 December 2006 |
Term End2: | 27 November 2010 |
Successor2: | Vladimír Bajan |
Birth Date: | 30 October 1956 |
Birth Place: | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
Alma Mater: | Comenius University |
Party: | Independent |
Website: | Official website for 2010 mayor election |
Milan Ftáčnik (30 October 1956 – 13 May 2021[1]) was a Slovak politician, Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic from 1998 to 2002 and Mayor of Bratislava from 2010 to 2014. He was also a teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava.
Ftáčnik was often described as a left-wing politician.
He was the older brother of chess grandmaster Ľubomír Ftáčnik.