EPP Group in the European Parliament

ivan.stefanec@europarl.europa.eu

Country: Slovakia

Party: Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie

Curriculum Vitae

Ivan Štefanec was born in 1961 in Považská Bystrica, Slovakia. He is a postgraduate from the University of Economics in Bratislava, where he obtained a PhD Degree in Economic Informatics in 1994. He also completed his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and received an MBA. He worked at Coca-Cola as a General Manager and a Director for European Integration. He was a founding partner and is Honorary President of the Business Alliance of Slovakia.

He joined the SDKÚ-DS Party in 2006 and became a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. He was Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Budget and Currency. Ivan Štefanec also served as a governmental plenipotentiary for the introduction of the Euro in Slovakia.

He is a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a substitute on the Budgets Committee of the European Parliament.

MEP since 2014.

My Positions in Parliament:

Member - Intergroup on Wine, Spirits and Foodstuffs
Member - Intergroup on Western Sahara
Member - Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Member - Intergroup on Sky and Space
Member - Intergroup on Rural, Mountainous and Remote Areas (RUMRA) and Smart Villages
Member - Intergroup on Disability
Member - Intergroup on Demographic Challenges, Family-Work Balance and Youth Transitions
Member - Intergroup on Sustainable, Long-Term Investments and Competitive European Industry
Member - Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital
Member - Intergroup on Anti-Corruption
Member - Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie
Member - Japan
Member - Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Member - European Parliament
Substitute - Euronest
Substitute - Ukraine
Substitute - Human Rights
Substitute - Industry, Research and Energy