Štefan Králik

Ing. Štefan Králik was born on 9 December 1954 in Dvorníky nad Váhom.

From the year 1973 he worked successively at the national company Montostroj, the Slovak National Theatre, the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic and at Národná banka Slovenska.

He has worked at the central bank from its origin up to the present. In the years 1993 - 2007 he functioned as the head director for the legislative-legal field, management of human resources, education, public information and relations regarding the state budget. Since October 2007 he was the Director of the Office of the Governor, in charge of the area for Legal Services. He is responsible for the Unit of the Office of the Governor and Legal Services.

During his time working at the NBS he has served in a number of positions: Secretary of the Bank Board of the NBS (since 1993), Chairman of the Council of the Deposit Protection Fund (since October 2002), Vice Chairman of the Financial Market Supervision Committee (2002-2006), member of the Committee of the Security Council of the Slovak Republic for Foreign Affairs (since March 2007), member of the Government Council for non-governmental organisations (since November 1999) and the like.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of National Economy at the University of Economics in Bratislava.

On 4 March 2009 the Government of the Slovak Republic named him as a Member of the Bank Board of Národná banka Slovenska, effective as of 1 April 2009.

Štefan Králik is married and has two children.