Michal Stanak has been the director of the Slovak national HTA body, National Institute for Value and Technologies in Healthcare, since January 1st 2022. In the years leading up to it, he served as the director of the HTA department at the Slovak Ministry of Health. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as a researcher at the Austrian Institute for HTA, where he worked on a number of HTA assessments for Austria, Germany and EUnetHTA. Since 2019, he has been a lecturer at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

Michal Stanak studied in England and Austria. He received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from King's College London, a master's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Health economics from University College London and a doctorate in applied ethics in the field of decision-making in healthcare from University of Vienna.