Milan Ftáčnik is a Slovak

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 politician, former Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic from 1998 to 2002 and the current Mayor of Bratislava

Mayor of Bratislava

Mayor of Bratislava is the highest political representative of the Slovak capital Bratislava. The Mayor's office is located at Primate's Square inside Primate's Palace, on the 3rd floor...

. He is also a teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Ftáčnik is often described as a left-wing politician.