Martin Pitorak was born in 1981 in Košice, Slovakia. He completed his education at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2007, he has been employed in the International Relations in Energy Department of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, where his primary responsibilities have involved managing the EU agenda in the fields of renewable energy and energy infrastructure. Between 2013 and 2019, he served as the energy attaché at the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU in Brussels. In 2019, he was appointed Director of the Energy and Fuels Department, where he has overseen the legal framework and policy initiatives related to the electricity market, gas market, heating sector, and biofuels. He also contributed to the preparation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan – Component 1: Renewable Energy and Energy Infrastructure.