Prior to her post in Strasbourg, Ms Mitrová was a leading researcher at the Research Institute of Preventive Medicine. In 1992, she was appointed as the last Czechoslovak Ambassador to the Council of Europe. On 30 June 1993, the Slovak Republic became a Member State of the Council of Europe, and Eva Mitrová became the first Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe and the first ever female Ambassador of the independent Slovak Republic. After the end of her mission in Strasbourg, she served as Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Hungary.
After her diplomatic career, she played a leading role in the National Reference Centre for Prion Diseases and in the Scientific Council of the Slovak University of Health Sciences. She has devoted her entire scientific life to the study of fatal prion infections, specially the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. She is the author and co-author of many scientific publications, for which she received several awards. She was born in Košice in 1937 and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Bratislava. Her hobbies include art, literature, languages and travelling.
The project “75 women in 75 years of Council of Europe history” is organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the Council of Europe with the Council of Europe and the Permanent Representations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
