Curriculum vitae

Date of birth: 30 August 1946
Marital status: married, 2 children

Education:

  • Scientific degree (CSc), 1980
  • University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, 1968

Professional career:

2009 - Member of the European Parliament

  • Committee on Women’s rights and Gender Equality, Member
  • Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Member
  • Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Substitute
  • Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Member
  • Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee, Substitute
  • Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, Substitute

2004 – 2009 Member of the European Parliament

  • Committee on Women’s rights and Gender Equality, Coordinator
  • Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Member
  • Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Substitute
  • Working Group of the EPP-ED on Demographic Change, Pension Reform, Social Security and Family Policy, Vice-Chairperson
  • Intergroup for Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages, Vice-Chairperson

2002 – July 2004
Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (NC SR) for the Party of the Hungarian Coalition

  • Social Affairs and Housing Committee of the NC SR, Vice-chairperson
  • Committee of NC SR on European Integration, Member
  • Parliamentary Delegation of the NC SR to the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the European Union-Slovak Republic, Member
  • Parliamentary Delegation of the NC SR to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Member
  • Since May 2003 Observer to the EP, since 1 May 2004 Member of the European Parliament, reelected on the 13th of June 2004

1998-2002
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic, State Secretary

  • 88th Session of the International Labour Office (ILO) in 2000, Vice-president

1990-1998 Member of the Slovak National Council (later National Council of the Slovak Republic) for the Party “Coexistence” (later Party of the Hungarian Coalition)

1994-1998 Environmental Committee, Member

1992-1994 Subcommittee for Science, Chairperson

1990-1992 Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Member

  • 1990 Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

1969-1989 Research Institute of the Standard of Living (renamed as the Research Institute of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the SR)

1968-1969 Slovak Association of Production Co-operatives

Political activities: Member of the Presidency of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition

Languages: Slovak, Hungarian, English and Russian