Katarína Cséfalvayová

Katarína Cséfalvayová (1985) is a Slovak politician and academic. She currently serves as the Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice-chairwoman of the European Affairs Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. As a strong advocate of the Slovakia’s pro-Atlantic and pro-European foreign policy underpinning, she has frequently voiced criticism of populist and extremist politicians and movements that question Slovakia’s membership in the EU and NATO.

Prior to joining the National Council in 2016 she served as Vice Dean for Foreign Affairs at the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Katarína Cséfalvayová is a graduate of the Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics in Bratislava (2009), where she also received a PhD in International Relations (2012). Since 2012 she has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty. She speaks Slovak and Hungarian as a native speaker, and is fluent in French and English.