Márta Nagy-Rothengass is currently Head of Unit "Data Value Chain" in DG CONNECT at European Commission.
She was born in Paks, Hungary. In 1987 she graduated in Economics at the University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary majoring in Foreign Commerce/Marketing. She continued at the same university, doing a Doctor's degree in Marketing in 1991. She went on to Danube University, Krems, Austria where she obtained her Masters in Business Administration in 2001. She speaks Hungarian, German, Russian and English.
Márta began her career in Budapest, Hungary dealing with initiation and transaction of trade agreements between Hungarian and Eastern and Western European firms. From 1991 she did freelance work including teaching Business Studies, translating and interpreting German-Hungarian and German-Russian and consultancy work for economic and commercial research. She managed a regional social association and was a member of the management for a federal association. In 1999 Márta changed to the private sector and worked for BOSCH Automation Technology and for a leading producer of electrical tools in Wendlingen in Germany, where she became the Head of New Media in 2001. She established and managed this new department introducing media-neutral product database, including integration into existing IT infrastructure. She designed and implemented brand-specific e-shops in collaboration with specialist dealers and integrating into international industry portal. She managed the workgroup on "Classification" in Electric Tools Division of German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (ZVEI).
She joined the European Commission in September 2005 as the Head of Unit of "ICT for the Environment" in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General and developed her Unit further to "ICT for Sustainable Growth" including the areas of enlarged environmental management, disaster risk reduction and the building up of ICT for energy efficiency linked to the integrated climate and energy policy. Since 2008 she was working as Head of Unit "Technologies for Information Management" in Luxembourg. The mission of her Unit was to contribute to the Lisbon Strategy of making Europe the most competitive knowledge-based economy. In particular, her Unit managed and co-funded research and development projects on innovative ICT technologies dealing with creation of intelligent digital objects and knowledge management, supporting knowledge exchange and "semantic web". Recently she and her Unit have taken the necessary steps to deal with more effective and efficient management of extremely large scale data.