Jozef Banáš

Jozef Banáš was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, on September 27, 1948.

STUDIES

• Foreign trade at the Business College in Bratislava (finished in 1972)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

• 1973-1976: Chirana Export Piešťany, Slovakia

• 1977-1992: Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague

• 1977-1983: director of the Press and Information Centre, Bratislava

• 1983-1988: press attaché at the Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin, GDR

• 1990-1992: envoy at the Czechoslovak embassy in Vienna, Austria

• 1992: Raiffeisen Leasing, Vienna, Austria

• 1993: managing director of Tatra Leasing Bratislava, Slovakia

• 1994-2001: PR director, Slovak International Tabak, Bratislava, Slovakia

• 2002-2006: MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic; vice-chairman of the Committee on European integration; head of the Permanent delegation of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and of the Permanent delegation of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

• 2004-2006: Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Jozef Banáš lives in Bratislava, Slovakia.