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Speaker information- Jαn Figel

Member of the European Commission for Education, Training, Culture and Youth

 

 

 

• Born on 20 January 1960 in Vranov nad Topľou, Slovakia


• Completed his Master studies in Power engineering at the Technical University in Košice, later, after the fell of Communism he studied international relations at Georgetown University, Washington and European studies at UFSIA Antwerp, Belgium


• Started his professional career as a researcher


• After 1989, he begun to be politically active within Christian-Democratic Party in Slovakia


• Member of the Slovak Parliament (1992-1998), chairmen of the Committee for Foreign Affairs


• In Slovakia known as State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chief Negotiator of the Slovak Republic in the negotiations on the accession to the EU


• Representative of the Slovak Government in the Convention on the Future of Europe (2002 – 2003)


• Teacher of European studies at University of Trnava


• Author of various publications on international relations, including several publications on the road of Slovakia to European Union

 

 

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