Slavomir Micháaek, born in 1961, is a historian, senior researcher in the Department of Modern History and Director of the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Michálek's areas of research include US foreign policy, Czech-US relations after World War II, the history of the United Nations, Slovak figures in the service of Czechoslovak diplomacy, and the second and third Slovak and Czechoslovak democratic exiles in America. He is the author of numerous studies in these areas and regularly gives lectures at many international conferences in Germany and abroad. He completed several study and research stays at universities and research institutions in Great Britain, the USA and Canada.

Dr Michal Štefanský worked at the Institute of Military History in Bratislava as well as Institutes of Political Science and History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 1989, he was a member of the government commission for the historical analysis of the years 1967–1970. He is author of, among other books, Studená vojna a Slovensko 1946–1954/1955–1962 (The Cold War and Slovakia, VEDA 2008/2012) and Krízy režimov sovietskeho bloku (The Crises of the Soviet Bloc Regimes, VEDA 2007)."