Managing director
Mag. phil. Matej Kasanický
managing director and chief executive
Political scientist, graduate of the University of Vienna, doctoral candidate. He has worked in public administration since 2003 and in advisory services since 2008 — never both at the same time.
Sole shareholder and managing director of Kasanický Consulting, s. r. o. He runs the company alone and leads every assignment personally, from the first conversation to the handover.
Career
- 2003
- Internship at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic.
- 2006 – 2007
- Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; press secretary of the Social Insurance Agency.
- 2010 – 2013
- State counsellor in the office of the Minister of Transport of the Slovak Republic.
- 2013 – 2016
- Assistant to Árpád Érsek, member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
- 2016 – 2017
- Head of the communications department, Railways of the Slovak Republic.
- 2017 – 2020
- Head of the department of strategy and international relations, Railways of the Slovak Republic.
- from 2020
- Political analyst and author of expert commentary; return to advisory work.
The company suspended its activity twice for the duration of public office — in 2010 and 2016. More on the Transparency page.
Working languages
- Slovak
- native
- German
- native level
- Czech
- professional
- English
- professional
- Bulgarian
- professional
- Hungarian
- basic
Published commentary
Since 2020 he has written expert commentary on domestic and international affairs — security, defence policy, public administration and foreign relations. 47 texts are available on this website, published in Slovak.
Public office
In 2026 he is standing in the municipal elections for the local council of the Bratislava-Petržalka borough.
This does not change how the company handles conflicts of interest. Kasanický Consulting suspended its activity twice for the duration of public office — in 2010 and 2016 — and the same approach is binding for the future. Details on the Transparency page.
Family predicate and family history
The family coat of arms with the predicate de Nagyselmecz is the company's mark. It appears in the header of every page of this site.
The predicate de Nagyselmecz (de Sceuniche in older records) refers to Liptovská Štiavnica. Members of the family used it after the village as early as the Middle Ages, and the family is documented in the Liptov region for more than six centuries.
- 1395
- Juraj Kasanický received estates in Liptovská Štiavnica by donation from King Sigismund; from then on the family used the predicate after the village.
- coat of arms
- The family arms were a red shield with a green trimount, upon which stands an ostrich holding a golden stone in its raised right foot.
- 1526
- Juraj Kasanický fell in the Battle of Mohács.
- from the 18th c.
- Members of the family appear beyond Liptov as well — in the counties of Pest, Nógrád, Tekov, Heves, Baranya and Krassó.
- 1748 – 1804
- Ján Kasanický, orientalist. He studied philosophy and theology, was ordained a priest in 1775, taught biblical studies and the Hebrew and Greek languages in Trnava and Buda, became a canon in 1791, director of the archiepiscopal seminary in Bratislava, and a canon of Esztergom in 1801. He died in Trnava.
- 1822 – 1905
- Amália Kasanická married Ján Francisci, a leading figure of the Slovak national movement of 1848/49, in Banská Bystrica in 1852.
- 19th century
- The family also produced officials of the Liptov county — Ján Kasanický, legal representative of the county, and Pavol Kasanický, a magistrate.
Source: VÍTEK, Peter: Liptovská Štiavnica. Dolný Kubín, Peter Huba Publishing 1998, pp. 32 – 33, ISBN 80-88803-24-1. An overview of the village population and its noble families is also available on the website of Liptovská Štiavnica.
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