Richard FilcakRichard Filčák is currently Deputy Director at the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences and acting Head of Forecasting Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He studied at Lund University in Sweden and received his PhD at Central EuropeanUniversity. He has extensive experience as a researcher, as well as development projects coordinator/expert working in Slovakia, Central Europe, Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries. His work and research interests are mainly in environmental and social policy development in the transitional countries of Central and Eastern Europe - with particular attention to social and territorial exclusion leading to the exposure to environmental risks, access to resources and vulnerability of the people. He has worked as a consultant and lead/senior expert for the Slovak Government, UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, European Commission and various NGOs. Richard is lecturer at the Comenius University Bratislava, he regularly delivers public lectures and he contributes to professional journals, authored four books and numerous articles in various professional journals. Read More Read Less