Barbora Maronkova

Ms. Maronkova joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Public Diplomacy
Division in Brussels, Belgium in 2006 as program coordinator to oversee projects that aim to raise awareness and promote NATO in a number of NATO member states. As of September 2010, she worked as a program manager for the Western Balkans where she designed, planned and implemented public diplomacy campaigns.  In this capacity, she advised several candidate countries on their national public awareness campaigns on NATO membership. From January to December 2016, she worked for NATO’s Press and Media office. As of 1 st March 2017, she holds the position of Director of NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine.

In 2003, she established and headed a Slovak based NGO Centre for European and North
Atlantic Affairs to contribute to the public and academic debate on Slovakia’s membership to the EU and NATO. Her work included public relations and media appearances, public speaking, donors and stakeholder relations as well as the management of the NGO.

A graduate of the University of Economics of Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Barbora also holds a Public Affairs diploma from the Chartered Institute for Public Relations in the UK. She served as a non-resident Research Fellow with the Centre on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California and is a frequent contributor to the CPD Blog.