Martin Hojsík (born 20 January 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak activist, an environmental expert and a politician elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. In addition to his committee assignments, Hojsík is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals and a member of the political group Renew Europe. He is also a vice chairman of the non-parliamentary political movement Progressive Slovakia and their expert on environmental issues and sustainability. In 2020, Hojsík appeared in the chart of American political opinion magazine Politico "20 MEPs to watch in 2020" and in the series of articles "Changemakers", where he was named as one of the MEPs, who will be the main leaders of positive changes in the fight against pesticides. He was the Chief Program Officer (CPO) and Executive Board member of the international charity FOUR PAWS. In the past, he worked on global campaigns for ActionAid International and Greenpeace International to change corporate behavior and public policies, and on communication campaigns for Greenpeace national offices He studied genetics at the Faculty of Natural Science at Comenius University in Bratislava and has been an environmental and social movement activist since 1993. Background Hojsík was born in Bratislava, where he also grew up. He attended the Grammar School Vazovova. After graduation, he studied at Comenius University. During his career as an environmental expert, he has worked and lived in several countries, such as the Netherlands, South Africa, Thailand, and Austria. In addition to Slovak, he speaks four other languages - Czech, Russian, English and German. Education and career From 1995 to 2001, he studied genetics at the Faculty of Natural Science at Comenius University in Bratislava. In his master's thesis, he focused on the importance of selected chemomutagens for dedifferentiation, callogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). He holds a certificate from Schumacher College with a focus on leadership and teamwork. Greenpeace Hojsík has dedicated much of his life to Greenpeace, an international non-profit organization for environmental protection. He worked there for almost two decades, from 1995 to 2013. First, from 1995 to 1997, he held the position of an external project manager for energy efficiency at Greenpeace Czechoslovakia, where he was in charge of media communication, logistics and coordination of volunteers. After 2001, he worked for Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe, where, among other things, he organized anti-toxin