Michaela Hletková Ploszeková, VOLKSWAGEN SLOVAKIA & AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Mgr. Michaela Hletková Ploszeková, MBA, is the head of the environment department at Volkswagen Slovakia. She has been involved in the application of environmental protection in car production for over 17 years – implementing the requirements of legislation and environmental management systems in production processes, designing and implementing environmental strategy, or preparing concepts and plans to reduce the environmental impacts for environmental and energy-intensive technologies. As the chair of the Environmental Legislation Commission of the Association of the Automotive Industry of the Slovak Republic, she prepares opinions and proposals for comments on the environmental legislation of the Slovak Republic and the EU. Since 2021, she has been active as a member of the Government Council for the European Green Deal of the Slovak Republic for the Federation of Slovak Industrial and Transport Associations. She graduated in environmental protection / geochemistry from the Faculty of Science of Comenius University in Bratislava, and she later earned her professional MBA degree in the field Automotive Industry from the Technical University of Vienna and the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.