Ivan Gašparovič

Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak lawyer and politician, born in 1941, who served as the third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014 and remains the only Slovak president to have been re-elected. He studied law at Comenius University in Bratislava from 1959 to 1964, worked in district and municipal prosecutors' offices, and from 1968 to 1990 taught in the department of criminal law and criminology there, becoming a prorector in 1990. After the Velvet Revolution he served as federal Prosecutor-General and briefly as vice-president of the Legislative Council of Czechoslovakia, and in late 1992 he was one of the authors of the Constitution of Slovakia. He was later Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.