Jozef Kollár

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Jozef Kollár was born on the 6th of August 1961. He is a member of the Slovak National Council as a candidate of SaS. He is a vice-chairman of theCommittee on Finance and Budget and a member of the Committee on European Affairs.

Political Career

Jozef Kollár started his political career in 2009 when he became a member of theSaS party and in 2010 was elected into the Slovak National Council; he was a member of the Committee on Finance and Budget. In 2012, Kollár was reelected but in 2013 he left SaS and became a full member of NOVA party.

Education

In 1983, Jozef Kollár graduated from the Ekonomická univerzita in Bratislava. He obtained his doctorate in 1990 from the Institute of Economic Research of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. After that, Kollár studied at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA (in 1993) and at the Graduate School of Banking in Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma, USA (1994-1995). In 1996, Kollár also passed a one-month-stay in the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship in Yokohama, Japan.

Notable Work

Jozef Kollár received many awards:

2001: Egon Zender International – Managerial Appraisal (Vienna, Austria)

     Strategic resource and key person in top management 

2003: Gold medal of Prof. Imrich Karvaš in Bratislava

     Extraordinary contribution in the education, theories and application of economy in  Slovakia

2006: Gold medal of Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry

     15th anniversary of the establishment of the Popular Bank-Volsbank Slovakia 

External Links

Official profile on Slovak National Council’s website

Official website of Jozef Kollár

Profile on Osobnosti.sk

Blog of Jozef Kollár