Andrej Donoval

Andrej Donoval
Born	1974 Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
NSA member	Czechoslovakia 1997 - 1998
NSA member	Slovakia 1998 - 2010
Counsellor	Europe 2010 - 2013
ITC member	2013 - 2023
UHJ member	2023 - Present
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Andrej Donoval (b. 1974) is a Slovakian Bahá’í currently serving on the Universal House of Justice.

Background

Donoval was born in 1974 in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, where he attended middle school and high school. In 1994 he married Martina Konecna and they have three children. In his professional career Donoval has worked as an entrepreneur involved in several private businesses and in 2006 he and his wife established the first International Montessori School in Bratislave, Slovakia, which they ran until 2013. He received a diploma from Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) for early childhood education in Munich, Germany in 2007.

Donoval was an active member of the Bahá’í community of Slovakia and was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Czech & Slovak Republics in 1997 and the independent National Spiritual Assembly of Slovakia the following year. He served on the Assembly until 2010 when he was appointed as a Counselor and in 2013 he was appointed to the International Teaching Center and he and his wife relocated to Haifa, Israel. In 2023 he was elected to the Universal House of Justice.