Ivan Štefanec
Ivan Štefanec (born September 30, 1961 in Považská Bystrica , Stredoslovenský kraj ) is a Slovak politician ( SDKÚ-DS , KDH ). He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014 .
Life
Štefanec studied economics at the Bratislava University of Economics and at the Comenius University in Bratislava . From 1983 to 1991 he worked as a project manager in the mechanical engineering company in Považská Bystrica . After the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, he went to the United States and completed an MBA at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State. He then headed the branch of the management consultancy Ernst & Young in Czechoslovakia. In 1994 he received his doctorate from the University of Economics in Bratislava. From 1994 to 2004 he was a manager at Coca-Cola Slovakia, first as finance director, then as general director.
The government of Mikuláš Dzurinda appointed Štefanec in 2004 as the plenipotentiary for the introduction of the euro in Slovakia. The following year he joined Dzurinda's party, Slovenská Demokratická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana (SDKÚ-DS). In 2006 he was elected a member of the Slovak National Council . He was re-elected in 2010 and 2012 . During the 2010–12 legislative period, he was Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs, then Vice-Chairman.
As a member of the SDKÚ-DS, he was in the 2014 European elections in the European Parliament elected. There he sits in the Christian Democratic Group of the European People's Party (EPP). He is a member of the Committee for Internal Market and Consumer Protection and was delegate for relations with the countries of South Asia in the legislative period until 2014. In February 2015 he left the SDKÚ-DS and joined the Kres tratanskodemokratické hnutie (KDH) four months later . He was re-elected in 2019 as the KDH candidate with the most preferential votes . In addition to his seat on the Internal Market Committee, he has since been the delegate for relations with Japan.
Štefanec is married and has two children.
Web links
- Official website of Štefanec
- Entry on Ivan Štefanec in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b CV of Ivan ŠTEFANEC
- ^ Entry on Ivan Štefanec in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Štefanec, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Považská Bystrica |