PhDr. Irina Kozárová, PhD. studied modern non-Slavonic philology (with specialization in English language and literature) and political science at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov in Prešov. She completed her PhD studies in theory of politics at the Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Science in Bratislava. From 2003 to 2017, she was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov in Prešov. Since 2018, she has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Intercultural Communication at the Faculty of Management and Business of the University of Prešov in Prešov. At present, she runs courses on English for Specific Purposes in Management and Environmental Management Bachelor programmes. She has a research interest in various aspects of globalization and its driving forces; global problems; and terminology of political science, international relations, economics and management.