Professional characteristics

Prof. Ing. Iveta Ubrežiová, CSc. completed her second and third cycles of higher education at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Agriculture in Nitra. On February 1, 1998, she joined the Department of Management and Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Slovak University of Agriculture (FEM SUA) in Nitra as an Assistant Professor. She served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Management (FEM SUA) from 2004 and was appointed Professor in the field of Business Economics and Management in 2011. Since October 1, 2019, she has been working at the Catholic University v Ružomberku, initially at the Department of Management in Poprad, and currently in Ružomberok.She is an expert in corporate management with significant national and international recognition. She is among the university educators who laid the foundations of education in international management and international business. She pays special attention to internationalization and its impact on entrepreneurial activity. As the lead author, she provided a comprehensive view of international business and management at the Department of Management (SUA in Nitra), publishing the co-authored university textbook Management and Marketing in an International Environment in 2001. She later authored independent lecture notes and textbooks titled International Management and Business (sole author in 2008; lead/co-author in 2013, 2015, 2018, and 2021), a field she actively continues to pursue in her current research and pedagogical activities.

Since 2000, she has participated in numerous guest lecturing stints at foreign universities, including:Cornell University, Ithaca (USA)University of Economics in Krakow (Poland)Dronten Agricultural University (Netherlands)Åbo Akademi School of Business in Turku (Finland)University of Oviedo (Spain), University of Bucharest (Romania)"Fan S. Noli" University in Korçë and University of Tirana (Albania)NUBiP in Kyiv (Ukraine)University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland)Timiryazev University in Moscow (Russia)From 2015 to 2019, she served as a member of the independent accreditation commission ARSA at the State Agricultural University in Belgorod, Russian Federation, and as a member of the state examination committee at the Faculty of Economics of the Timiryazev University in Moscow. In 2025, she completed Erasmus+ lecturing visits at the University of Bielsko-Biala (Poland) and the Adriatic University in Bar (Montenegro).

She is an editorial board member of the scientific journal TRENDY V PODNIKÁNÍ / Business Trends (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Economics) and the scientific journal REFLEXIE - Kompendium teórie a praxe podnikania (Department of Management, Faculty of Education, Catholic University v Ružomberku). She serves on international scientific committees at conferences, doctoral and habilitation defense boards, and acts as a peer reviewer for scientific articles and chapters indexed in Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and other databases. Her most significant work showcases research results where she has (co-authored 5 domestic and foreign monographs, 8 university textbooks, and over 260 original scientific papers published or presented at international conferences (including indexed WoS and Scopus scientific papers). She established her own academic school, successfully supervising 9 PhD graduates, and currently mentors 1 third-year doctoral student. Her research initiatives build upon previous projects focused on international management and business—subjects she coordinates and teaches in both Slovak and English. Throughout her teaching career, she has supervised over 130 Master's and Bachelor's theses, with nearly half specializing in international management and business.Since October 1, 2019, she has been based at the Department of Management, Faculty of Education, Catholic University v Ružomberku. She serves as the Head of the Department and the coordinator/guarantor of two degree programs: Management (Bachelor's level) and Business Economics and Management (Master's level).

She is the coordinator for the courses "International Management and Business", "Management", and "Human Resource Management". Her current research focuses on multinational corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ESG Reporting, and Human Resources.

From 2022 to 2026, she was a member of the Scientific Council of the Catholic University v Ružomberku, and since May 10, 2023, she has served as a member of the Scientific Council of its Faculty of Education. Furthermore, she is a selection committee member for the National Scholarship Programme, evaluating applications for research and lecturing stays for university teachers, researchers, and doctoral students in the humanities, social sciences, and arts ("soft sciences"). She is a member of the Expert Evaluation Body for the Central Registry of Publication Activity (CREPČ) and an expert reviewer for the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (SAAVŠ) in Bratislava.