Maroš Šefčovič

Maroš Šefčovič
Official portrait, 2024
European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security and for Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 December 2024
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byValdis Dombrovskis (Trade)
Věra Jourová (Transparency)
Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal
In office
22 August 2023 – 30 November 2024
Acting: 22 August 2023 – 5 October 2023
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byFrans Timmermans
Succeeded byTeresa Ribera
Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations
In office
1 December 2019 – 30 November 2024
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byFrans Timmermans
Succeeded byHimself, as commissioner
In office
9 February 2010 – 1 November 2014
PresidentJosé Manuel Barroso
Preceded byMargot Wallström (Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy)
Siim Kallas (Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud)
Succeeded byFrans Timmermans
European Commissioner for Climate Action
Acting
In office
22 August 2023 – 9 October 2023
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byFrans Timmermans
Succeeded byWopke Hoekstra
European Commissioner for Digital Single Market
Acting
In office
3 July 2019 – 30 November 2019
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
Preceded byAndrus Ansip
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice President)
European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy
Acting
In office
16 October 2012 – 28 November 2012
PresidentJosé Manuel Barroso
Preceded byJohn Dalli
Succeeded byTonio Borg
European Commissioner for Energy
In office
1 November 2014 – 30 November 2019
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
Preceded byGünther Oettinger
Succeeded byKadri Simson
European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth
In office
1 October 2009 – 9 February 2010
PresidentJosé Manuel Barroso
Preceded byJán Figeľ
Succeeded byAndroulla Vassiliou (Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth)
Ambassador of Slovakia to the European Union
In office
2004 – 30 September 2009
Ambassador of Slovakia to Israel
In office
1999–2002
Personal details
Born (1966-07-24) 24 July 1966
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
(now Slovakia)
Political partySmer–SD (1999–present)
Other political
affiliations		KSČ (before 1990)
SpouseHelena Šefčovičová
Children3
Alma materMoscow State Institute of International Relations
Comenius University

Maroš Šefčovič (Slovak: [ˈmarɔʂ ˈʂeftʂɔʋitʂ] ⓘ; born 24 July 1966) is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving as European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency (2024–2029) in the Von der Leyen Commission II. Prior to that, he was the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal from 2023 to 2024, as well as Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations since 2019, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2014. He has been a member of the European Commission since 2009. Šefčovič also stood for office in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, which he lost to Zuzana Čaputová.

Šefčovič served as European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth from 2009 to 2010 and Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations and Administration from 2010 to 2014. He served as European Commissioner for Energy from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, Šefčovič was appointed Vice-President for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight.

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