Miroslav Lajčák
Miroslav Lajčák (20 March 1963 in Poprad) is a Slovak diplomat.
Lajčák is a law graduate from the Comenius University in Bratislava. He studied international relations at the State Institute of International Relations in Moscow and is also a graduate of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
He joined the Czechoslovakian foreign ministy in 1988. Between 1991 and 1993 Lajčák was posted to the Czechoslovakian and subsequently the Slovakian embassy in Moscow. Lajčák was Slovakia’s ambassador to Japan between 1994 and 1998. Between 1993 and 1994 he served as the chef de cabinet of Slovakia’s then Foreign Minister and later Prime Minister, Jozef Moravčík. Between 2001 and 2005, Lajčák was based in Belgrade as Slovakia’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro), Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
On 30 June, 2007 he became the international community's High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina suceeding Christian Schwarz-Schilling to the post.