Miroslav Beblavý (born 6 January 1977 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak investor, startup founder, economist, author and former politician.
In addition, over the course of the 2010s, Beblavý was active in various consultancy projects for the World Bank, OECD and the European Commission supporting economic reforms in developing countries.
As an MP, he managed to implement several partial reforms such as mandatory online publication of final theses at the Slovak universities and more transparency in allocation of European funding.
[4][5] In the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election Beblavý again ran on the list of SDKÚ, which was at the time heavily implicated in the corruption allegations known as the Gorilla scandal.
Beblavý was not personally involved in the scandal, however the party ended up performing poorly in the election losing 17 out of its previously held 28 parliamentary seats.
Beblavý got elected deputy chairman of the new party but unlike the Procházka and Hrnčiar, he did not give up his mandate and remained MP for the rest of the term.
Soon after the election, Beblavý, who co-led the list with Progressive Slovakia leader Michal Truban, resigned his party chairmanship and retired from politics.
[18] Following the loss of his MP seat, Beblavý returned to consulting and academic career, including notably teaching at Sciences Po.
[1][19] He is also the Scientific Coordinator of EENEE (European Expert Network on Economics of Education) (since 2021), columnist for SME Daily (since 2020) Beblavý has been married to Emília Sičáková-Beblavá since 2002.