Katarina Mathernova is a
Director in Directorate General for Regional Policy in the European
Commission in Brussels. Prior to the EC, she worked as a private sector
development specialist at the World Bank in Washington, and previously she
served as Chief Institutional and Policy Advisor to the Slovak Deputy Prime
Minister for Economic Affairs. In 2000, she was chosen Slovakia Woman of the
Year. She co-authored the principal government concept paper on the
institutional, legal and regulatory changes needed to improve the business
and investment climate. Katarina's carrier also included private practice of
law in London with Shearman & Sterling and Washington DC with Wilmer, Cutler
& Pickering. In 2001 and 2002 she was an Open Society Institute Fellow and a
German Marshal Fund Fellow. She published on topics of federalism and
institutional reforms.
EDUCATION:
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
August 1988 - May 1989
LL.M. degree (Masters of Law)
Full Law School tuition-waiver, scholarship and travel grant.
Comenius University Law School, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Sept. 1983 - June 1987
JUDr. degree (Juris Doctor)
Graduated with Highest Honors.
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:
Institute for Public Affairs, Public Policy Think-Tank,
Bratislava, Slovakia.
Foundation for a Civil Society, Civil society development
oriented foundation, New York, USA.
Foundation PONTIS, Foundation aimed at building of a civil
society and development of corporate philanthophy, Bratislava, Slovakia.
PUBLICATIONS:
Co-author of a chapter on the Rule of Law, Legal Developments and Law
Implementation in Slovakia in 2001; in Slovakia 2001, A Global Report
on the State of Society, a book published annualy by Institute for
Public Affairs (http://www.ivo.sk/english.asp)
Federalism That Failed: Reflections on Czecho - Slovakia, New
Europe Law Review, Fall 1992, Benjamin J. Cardozo School of Law,
Yeshiva University, New York.
Czecho ? Slovakia: Constitutional Disappointments, American
University Journal of International Law and Policy, Vol. 7, No. 3
(1992), Washington College of Law, Washington.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
One year
International Policy Fellowship, Open Society Institute,
Budapest, Hungary; writing on the policy reform process and institutional
failures in Slovakia, 2002. Topic: Lessons from Slovakia's Transition,
www.osi.hu
German Marshall Fund Campus Fellowship,
One week intense teaching course on Policy Issues in Transition Countries,
Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, USA, October 2001,
www.gmfus.org
Slovakia Woman of the Year - 2000,
Slovak Spectator (Main English Language Weekly published in Slovakia), Year
End Issue 2000.