Karol Galek is a representative of the National Council of the Slovak Republic since 2016, member of the Economic Committee and chairman of the Technological Development and Innovation Subcommittee. He is a teamleader of Energetics in the opposition political party in Slovakia – Freedom and Solidarity (Sloboda a Solidarita). His main agenda is ending of subsidies to the production of coal-fired electricity, transparency of regulation, elimination of political intervention in electricity prices, electricity trade, renewable energy and climate change.

In 2004 he obtained a Master’s degree in Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology and in 2008 was titled as Master of Science at Vienna University of Technology with specialization in Renewable Energy in Central and Eastern Europe.
Since 2004 he has been working professionally in the energy sector, starting as a project manager for geothermal systems in Slovakia. In 2008 completed an internship program as a development analyst for solar, wind and geothermal power plants in the USA. After resumption to Slovakia, he started an own business with small and medium scale PV projects. Among other activities he had been involved as a coordinator into several cross-border cooperation projects between Slovakia and Austria and in issues related to energy production and savings.