Ambassador Bronislava Chmelová took up her duties as Permanent Representative of Slovak Republic to the OECD on 15 December 2025.
Ms. Chmelová began her career at the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, where she specialised in economic strategy and regulatory governance. Between 2003 and 2006, she was a Senior State Counsellor in Section of Business and Tourism of the Department of Economic Strategy. Between 2006 and 2008, she led the Unit of SMEs and Better Regulation, serving as Slovakia’s national contact point and project manager for OECD initiatives on good governance and corporate activities, implementation of legislative impact assessments on business environment and employment at the national level as well as implementing EU-driven reforms to improve regulatory governance.
In 2008, Ms. Chmelová became Economic Diplomat at the Slovak Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, promoting Slovak trade and economic interest as well as facilitating foreign-Slovak partnerships in business and investment. In 2011, she joined the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, where she held several positions related to economic diplomacy. From 2014 to 2018, as Senior State Counsellor, she co-ordinated economic diplomacy activities for Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium, including business missions, trade fairs and exhibitions, and economic interdepartmental commissions. Between 2016 and 2018, she served as Section Secretary for economic and development co-operation, managing internal co-ordination.
From 2018 to 2022, Ms. Chmelová was Economic Diplomat at the Slovak Embassy in Vienna, Austria, supporting Slovak exporters and investors and facilitating bilateral economic co-operation. She then became Head of the Unit of Economic Analyses and Information (2022-2024), responsible for preparing analytical reports and policy recommendations, monitoring economic trends as well as implementing activities of diplomatic missions in the field of economic diplomacy. Most recently, she served as Director of the Department of Economic Diplomacy Co-ordination (2024-2025), overseeing strategic planning and developing action plans to support Slovakia’s trade interests on bilateral and multilateral levels.
Ms. Chmelová holds a degree in Economics of Telecommunications from the University of Žilina, where she studied from 1998 to 2003. She is married and has two children.