Ján Figeľ
Special Envoy for promotion of freedom of relgion outside the EU
Nationality: Slovak
Birth date and place: 20 January 1960, Vranov nad Topľou, Slovakia
Marital status: Married, 4 children
Political Career
2016
Special Envoy for promotion of freedom of relgion outside the EU
2012 – 2016
Vice-President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
2010 – 2012
First Deputy-Prime Minister of the Government of the Slovak Republic and Minister of Transport, Construction and Regional Development
2009 – 2016
Chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)
2004 – 2009
Member of the European Commission – Education, Training, Culture and Youth portfolio
2004 – May – November
Member of the European Commission – Enterprise and Information Society portfolio
2003 – 2004
Head of the Standing Delegation of Observers of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in the European Parliament, also Member of the Presidency of the EPP-EP fraction of the European Parliament
2002 – 2003
Representative of the Slovak National Council at the Convention on the Future of Europe
1998 – 2003
State Secretary, Chief Negotiator of the Slovak Republic for negotiations on the accession of Slovakia to the EU
1992 – 1998
Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, also Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Vice-Chairman of the EPP fraction in the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE (1998)
Since 1990
Founding Member of the Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH)
Academic Career and Formation
2002 – 2007 PhD at St. Elisabeth University, Bratislava
1995 – 2000 Lecturer of International Relations, Trnava University, Slovakia
1994 Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, Semestrial course on International relations
1994 UFSIA Antwerp, Belgium, Semestrial course on European economic integration
1978 – 1983 Engineer in Power Electronics, Technical University Košice
Membership in Non-Governmental Organizations
Member of the Board of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Member of the International Committee for Support of Democracy in Cuba
Honorary Chairman of the Centre for European Policy
Honorary President of the Kolping Society in Slovakia
Presidency member of the Anton Tunega Foundation
Former President of the Pan-European Union in Slovakia
Publications
Ján Figeľ: In the Centre of Common Europe, MCP Žilina, 2011
Ján Figeľ: Maturation for Europe, Negotiator´s Chronicle, MCP Žilina, 2005
Ján Figeľ, Miroslav Adamiš: Slovakia on the Road to the European Union – Chapters and Contexts, 2003
Ján Figeľ, Wolfgang Roth: Slovakia on the Road to EU Membership (co-editor), 2002
Awards
Human Tolerance and Humanitarian Award (The Czecho-Slovak Society of Arts and Science, Washington DC),
Knight of the Honorary Legion (President of the French Republic),
The Interfaith Golden Medallion (International Council of Christians and Jews, Cambridge, Great Britain),
Freedom award (International Peace Centre in Sarajevo),
Doctor honoris causa, Technical University Košice
Doctor honoris causa, Dimitri Cantemir University in Bucharest
Doctor honoris causa, Trnava University
Doctor honoris causa, St. Elisabeth University, Bratislava
Last update: 7/2016