Jozef Makúch

Jozef Makúch (born August 26, 1953 in Podhájska in the Okres Nové Zámky administrative region ) is a Slovak finance scientist and governor of the Slovak National Bank from 2010 to 2019 .

Life

Makúch finished his economics studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava in 1976 and then worked at the Czechoslovak State Bank as a loan inspector. After postgraduate studies in 1985, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Finance of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Economics in Bratislava in 1989. There he then worked as dean from 1991 to 1994. From January 1993 to December 1996 he was a member of the bank council of Národná banka Slovenska (National Bank of Slovakia, NBS). In February 1994, he assumed the position of Executive Director of the NBS Research Center. In November 2000 Makúch chairman of the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Financial Market Authority, FMA) and from April 2002 to December 2005 he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors appointed (Board) of the FMA. Makúch is married and has three children.

Act

On January 12, 2010, Makúch was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia by Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič , succeeding Ivan Šramko , during whose tenure Slovakia joined the euro area in 2009 . At the same time, with the election, he also took the Slovak seat on the Council of the European Central Bank . The decision in favor of Makúch came as a surprise because the Slovak parliament had changed the National Bank Act a few months earlier at the request of the government, giving the impression that the government wanted to keep Šramko in office. After the change in the law, another term of office would have been possible for Šramko.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ finanzen.net, January 12, 2010 , accessed February 3, 2011
2. ^ SLC-Europe, January 2, 2010 , accessed on February 3, 2011

Web links

• Portrait on the website of the National Bank of Slovakia , accessed on February 3, 2011