Martin Fatura - Commentator

Director, Department of EU Affairs, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU

Martin Fatura is the Director of EU Affairs Department at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

After completing his Master’s in Law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University, he worked at the Ministry of Regional Development as a specialist at the Department for the Legal and Legislative Affairs. After one year he started to work at the National Coordination Authority where he worked for the next five years as the Head of the Legal Coordination of EU Funds Unit.

At the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, he is responsible for the coordination of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU (CZ PRES) activities, EU policies in fields of education and youth, and the Erasmus+ Programme and European Solidarity Corps at the National Authority level.