| Birth Date: | 1966 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Nitra, Czechoslovakia |
| Office: | Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia for European Union Subsidies and the Recovery Plan |
| Alongside: | Robert Kaliňák, Denisa Saková and Tomáš Taraba |
| Predecessor: | Lívia Vašáková |
| Primeminister: | Robert Fico |
| Term Start: | 25 October 2023 |
| Office1: | Member of the National Council |
| Termstart1: | 20 March 2020 |
| Termend1: | 25 October 2023 |
| Office2: | Ambassadorial Positions |
| Suboffice2: | United States |
| Subterm2: | 2012–2018 |
| Suboffice3: | Sweden |
| Subterm3: | 2007–2012 |
| Termstart2: | 2007 |
| Termend2: | 2018 |
| Party: | Voice – Social Democracy (since 2020) |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Otherparty: | Direction – Social Democracy (until 2020) |
Peter Kmec (born 11 November 1966) is a Slovak diplomat and politician who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister for European Funding of Slovakia since 2023.
Kmec was born on 11 November 1966 in Nitra.[1] Between 1985 and 1990, he studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.[2] Kmec was the ambassador of Slovakia to Sweden from 2007 until 2012, later the United States from 2012 until 2018.[3] [4]
In 2020, Kmec was elected as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia on the list of Direction – Social Democracy.[5] Soon after the election, he joined the Voice – Social Democracy party, which split from Smer.[6]
As a member of Voice, Kmec served as the main foreign policy expert, until a video was published by a Smer activist showing Kmec agreeing with government foreign policy experts in the need for pro-Western focus of Slovak politics. The video was used by Smer to accuse Voice of planning to form government with liberal parties, rather than pro-Russian Smer after the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election. As a result, Kmec lost his position as the Voice foreign policy expert.[7] Following the election, Kmec became deputy prime minister as well as Minister of European Union Subsidies and the Recovery Plan in Fico's Fourth Cabinet.[2]