Ingrid Brocková

Her parents live in Žiar nad Hronom, where she grew up.^[2] For her high school years, she went to a ski school in Kežmarok, which was also a boarding school.^[2] In 1986 she graduated in Economics at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. She also obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree at the same university in 1991.^[3] She also studied International Relations at the Comenius University and International Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University in the US.^[1] Since 1993 she has worked at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic in the field of economic diplomacy.^[4] From 1996 to 2000, she worked as an economic diplomat to the United States, and from there, for 7 years, a representative of Slovakia to the World Bank.^[4] Afterward, from 2009 to 2015, she was Slovakia's permanent envoy to OECD.^[1]

Brocková was then, from 2015 to 2017, Director General of the Economic Cooperation Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[4] She was reappointed as Slovakia's representative to the OECD in 2018.^[4]

On 13 September 2023, Brocková resigned from the State Secretary position, effective 17 September.^[5] During her time as state secretary she mainly focused on economic diplomacy and relations with international organizations.^[6] She left her position as State Secretary to become the Slovak Ambassador to the Czech Republic, handing in her credentials on 18 October 2023 at Prague Castle.^[6]