Dr. Elena Szolgayová, an architect and urban planner with long-standing research experience, has been advising state and municipal housing and urban policy makers since the early 1990s.
In 1999 she joined the state administration, recently acts as Director General, DG Housing Policy and Urban Development at the Ministry of Transport and Construction in Bratislava, Slovakia. For over two decades participated on shaping the visions of the global and European housing and urban development policies and was one of those steering the process toward formulation and adoption of the Geneva UN Charter on sustainable housing. She was a member of the Preparatory Bureau for the Habitat III conference and participated in the Policy Unit on Housing during the preparatory process of the New Urban Agenda. Currently she is one of coordinators of the Housing Partnership under the Urban Agenda for the EU. She has contributed to numerous international working groups, as well as UNECE and research publications and conferences related to urban and housing issues. In 2013 was re-elected as Chair of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management.