Education
University of Economics in Bratislava. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
University of Economics in Bratislava. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
During the period of Iveta Radičová government (8 July 2010 – 4 April 2012) served as the Minister of Education of Slovakia. In 1993, he trained at the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission and the World Bank. In 1996 and 1997, Jurzyca was a panel member at Organization of European Cooperation and Development seminars for competition in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Kiev and Istanbul, Turkey.
Jurzyca was elected to the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
Soon after, he was selected to be Minister of Education.
In February 2012, one month before the parliamentary election, Jurzyca became a member of Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ-Doctor of Science). In January 2015 he became a member of Freedom and Solidarity (SaS). From 1984 to 1987, Jurzyca was a member of the Czechoslovak Football Commission.
He was later a member of the panel at the Organisation for Economic Company-operation and Development in Kiev, Ukraine and at the European Commission "Baltic Booster Conference".
From 1998 to 1999, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Economics in Bratislava, his alma mater, and the Comenius University in Bratislava. Later positions include serving as consultant for the World Bank and a member of the Government Economic Council.