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MAROŠ ŠEFČOVIČ Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and
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PROFESSIONAL CAREER
European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Inter-institutional Relations and Foresight
August 2023 – present
European Commission Vice-President for Inter-institutional Relations and Foresight
2019 – 2023
European Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union and responsible for coordinating EU Space policy
2014 – 2019
European Commission Vice-President temporarily in charge of the Digital Single Market July 2019 – November 2019
Co-chair of the Board of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy 2016 – Present
European Commission Vice-President for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration 2010
Elected as a Member of the European Parliament, Slovakia 2014
European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth 2009 Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the EU, Brussels 2004
Director-General of the European Affairs Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia 2003
Director-General of the Bilateral Cooperation Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia 2002
Ambassador of Slovakia to Israel 1999
Deputy Head of the Slovak Mission to the EU, Brussels 1998
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia: Head of the Minister’s Office, Deputy Head of the Minister’s Office, Deputy Director of the EU and NATO Countries Department 1995
Deputy Head at the Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic to Canada 1992
Consul at the Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic to Zimbabwe 1991
Advisor to the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic 1990
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in international and European law, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 1996–2000
Doctor of Law (JUDr.), Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 1990
Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Moscow, Russia 1985–1990
University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia 1984–1985
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Hoover Institution at Stanford University at Stanford, USA 1991
Université d´Eté de Perpignan, France 1990
PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS
Doctor Honoris Causa at the Pan-European University in Bratislava, Slovakia 2018
“Driving the EU forward – talks with Maroš Šefčovič” on the first mandate as European Commission Vice-President 2014
Chatam Sofer Medal for fostering the Slovak-Israeli relations 2002
LANGUAGES
Slovak: native; English, French, Russian: trilingual; German: foundations
INTERESTS
A wide range of sports, literature