Daniel Zmeko

[1] Zmeko was born on 24 November 1967 in Nové Mesto nad Váhom in the then-Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

He attended the Military Secondary High School in Banská Bystrica from 1982 to 1986, and he was enrolled in the Land Forces College at Vyškov na Morave from 1986 to 1990.

[2] He was one of the first to complete the National Defense Course at the General Milan Rastislav Štefánik Slovak Armed Forces Academy.

[citation needed] On 26 April 2018, Zmeko was appointed to this post and promoted to lieutenant general.

Prior to his appointment, he was the Director General of the Modernization and Infrastructure Section of the Ministry of Defense.