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- European Commission
Maroš Šefčovič serves as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal, Interinstitutional Relations, and Foresight. This follows his previous terms as Vice President of the Commission: for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight (2019-2023), the Energy Union (2014-2019), Interinstitutional Relations and Administration (2009-2014), and as EU Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture, and Youth (2009-2010).
He is also responsible for EU relations with Western non-EU countries, notably Andorra, Iceland, Monaco, Norway, Lichtenstein, San Marino, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He initiated and leads the European Battery Alliance to help create an innovative, sustainable, and globally competitive battery sector in the EU. To strengthen energy security, he leads the work of the EU Energy Platform for joint gas purchasing.
Overall, European affairs have been at the centre of the Executive Vice President’s career for more than two decades. During 2004 and 2009, he served as Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the European Union, steering the country’s integration in the EU and particularly instrumental to its entry to the single-currency Euro area and the free-travel Schengen area. As a diplomat by profession, he served between 1992 and 2004 in Zimbabwe and Canada, and as Ambassador of Slovakia to Israel.