Elena PetrÁŠkovÁ

Biography

Elena Petrášková graduated from law school at the University of P. J. Safarik in Košice in 1992 and joined VSZ the same year as a litigation attorney. In 1993, she moved to the company’s corporate law section and in 1999 advanced to section. She was appointed an assistant general counsel in U. S. Steel Košice’s law department in 2001 with responsibility for the commercial and corporate sections. In 2005, Mrs. Petrášková accepted a one-year assignment in  the law department at U. S. Steel’s corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh. She returned to Slovakia in 2006 to serve once again as an assistant general counsel at U. S. Steel Košice. In 2007, she relocated to Pittsburgh for a second assignment in the corporate law department. In the same year she was appointed attorney - international law. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009 with a degree in the Master of Laws Program for Foreign Law Graduates. She is Vice President and Chairperson of the Committee for Environmental Matters in the National Union of Employers and also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Metallurgy, Mining and Geology of the Slovak Republic. Mrs. Petrášková was appointed to the position Vice President External Services and Administration in 2011. She assumed her position as Vice President Subsidiaries and Services at U. S. Steel Košice in October 2013.

Research Interest

Law, Business Management