Soňa Popper Tóthová

Head of AML Supervision Department, National Bank of Slovakia

Soňa Popper Tóthová graduated from the Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava and studied International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

She began her career in the Legal Services Department of the National Bank of Slovakia, where she worked on the implementation of European legislation into the Slovak legal framework, particularly in the areas of payment systems and financial market supervision. She later moved to the banking sector, where she worked as a Compliance lawyer. After returning to the National Bank of Slovakia in 2015, she specialised in AML supervision in the banking sector. Since 2020, she has been heading the AML Supervision Department at the National Bank of Slovakia.

She is a member of the Slovak delegation to the Council of Europe's MONEYVAL Committee and is actively involved in AML/CFT projects in the Western Balkans.