60 Notable alumni of
University of Economics, Prague
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The University of Economics, Prague is 678th in the world, 245th in Europe, and 6th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from the University of Economics, Prague sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Miloš Zeman
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied in 1965-1969
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Miloš Zeman is a Czech politician who served as the third president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023. He also previously served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 1993 to 2001, he is credited with the revival of the party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman briefly served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 1998.
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Václav Klaus
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied in 1958-1963
- Occupations
- economistteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.
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Jana Černochová
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- ministermayorpolitician
- Biography
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Jana Černochová is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to December 2025. She has been a member of the Czech parliament since 2010, representing the Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
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Ivan Mládek
- Occupations
- film actorpoetlyricistpaintertelevision actor
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Ivan Mládek is a Czech recording artist, composer, and comedian who gained success in the mid-1970s.
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Vít Jedlička
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- economistpolitical activistopinion journalistpolitician
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Vít Jedlička is a Czech right-wing libertarian politician, publicist, and activist. He was the chairman of the Party of Free Citizens in the Hradec Králové Region and serves as the founder and chairman of the Czech voluntary association Reformy.cz. On 13 April 2015, he founded the libertarian capitalist micronation of Liberland, claiming a patch of land that is part of the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and on the day the micronation was founded, was named president by a committee he appointed.
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Jiří Paroubek
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Jiří Paroubek is a Czech politician who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from April 2005 to September 2006. He was also the leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 2006 until his resignation following the 2010 parliamentary election.
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Michal Viewegh
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Michal Viewegh is a Czech writer. He is the most published Czech author of all time, with over a million books sold. In 1993, he earned the prestigious Jiří Orten award for Czech writers 30 years old or younger.
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Jan Fischer
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- economiststatisticianpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Fischer is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010, heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of Jiří Rusnok.
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Ivan Klíma
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- playwrightjournalistpedagogueopinion journalistwriter
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Ivan Klíma was a Czech novelist and playwright. He received the Magnesia Litera award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honours.
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Jaroslav Kubera
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jaroslav Kubera was a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party, who served in the Czech Senate representing Teplice from 2000 and the Senate President from 2018 until his death in 2020. He previously served as mayor of Teplice from 1994 to 2018.
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Jiří Rusnok
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Jiří Rusnok is a Czech politician and economist who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic between June 2013 and January 2014. From 2016 to 2022 he served as the governor of the Czech National Bank.
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Jana Bobošíková
- Occupations
- perennial candidatejournalistpoliticianwriter
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Jana Bobošíková is a Czech politician. In the 2004 European Parliament election she was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the Independents and remained unaffiliated in the European Parliament. In the 2008 and 2013 presidential elections she unsuccessfully ran for the office as President of the Czech Republic. She founded Politika 21 in 2006 and Sovereignty – Jana Bobošíková Bloc in 2009.
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Markéta Šichtařová
- Occupations
- economistbrokerwriterpunditpublicist
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Marketa Šichtařová is a Czech economist, author and businesswoman. She is director of Next Finance, a consulting firm, which she founded in 2004.
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Karel Havlíček
- Occupations
- economistentrepreneurministerpolitician
- Biography
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Karel Havlíček is a Czech politician, who has served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Minister of Industry and Trade since 15 December 2025, in the third cabinet of Andrej Babiš. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Minister of Transport between 2019 and 2021, during Babiš's first term as Prime Minister.
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Dita Charanzová
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dita Charanzová is a Czech politician, consultant and former senior civil servant, focusing on European Union issues. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from July 2014 to July 2024 and its vice-president from July 2019 to July 2024.
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Livia Klausová
- Occupations
- diplomateconomist
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Livia Klausová is a Slovak-born Czech economist who was the First Lady of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013 as wife of the President Václav Klaus. From 2013 to 2018 she served as the Czech Republic's ambassador to Slovakia.
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Klára Dostálová
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Klára Dostálová is a Czech politician and economist who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since 2017. She served as Deputy Minister of Local Development in the Second Cabinet of Andrej Babiš from 2014 to 2017 before being appointed permanently from December 2017 until 2021. In 2020, Dostálová returned to the council of the Hradec Králové region, of which she has been a member from 2016 until 2017. Dostálová is active in politics as a non-party member of the ANO movement.
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Alexandra Udženija
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexandra Udženija is a Czech politician of Serbian descent.
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Josef Tošovský
- Occupations
- bankereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Josef Tošovský is a Czech economist and former governor of Czech National Bank (from 1993 to 2000). From 17 December 1997 to 17 July 1998 he was the prime minister of the Czech Republic in a caretaker government.
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Jan Skopeček
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Skopeček is a Czech Civic Democratic politician who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since March 2017, and was deputy president of the Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2025.
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Vladimír Dlouhý
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- pedagogueeconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Vladimír Dlouhý is a Czech economist and politician.
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Petr Mach
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Petr Mach is a Czech economist and former Member of the European Parliament. Mach is the founder of the Party of Free Citizens, which he led until 2017 when he was replaced by Tomáš Pajonk.
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Jozef Síkela
- Occupations
- ministerbankerpoliticianmanagerinvestor
- Biography
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Jozef Síkela is a Czech politician and investment banker who is the European Commissioner for International Partnerships under President Ursula von der Leyen since December 2024. He previously served as the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in the cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to October 2024.
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Vladimír Pikora
- Occupations
- economistbrokerwriterpunditopinion journalist
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Vladimír Pikora is a Czech financial market analyst, macroeconomist, and politician. In 2021 he established Pikora Invest as a family office.
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Ivan Pilip
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Ivan Pilip is a Czech politician and economist who was finance minister from June 1997 to July 1998, after having been the Minister of Education, Youth and Sport from 1994 to 1997.
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Monika Leová
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantpresenter
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Monika Leová is a Czech TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Czech Miss 2013 and represented her country at Miss Earth 2013. Monika was born in the Czech Republic to a Vietnamese father (Lê Đình Châu) and a Czech mother. She is fluent in English and Russian.
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Jaromír Štětina
- Occupations
- economistjournalistwar correspondentgeologisttranslator
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Jaromír Štětina was a Czech journalist, writer and politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019 for the Czech Republic, representing TOP 09. He was also known as a war correspondent from the conflict areas of the former Soviet Union countries.
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Veronika Vrecionová
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Veronika Vrecionová is a Czech politician has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A member of the Civic Democratic Party, she currently serves as chairwoman of the EU Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Martin Dvořák
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- In 1982 studied finance
- Occupations
- council membereconomistministeropinion journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Martin Dvořák is a Czech politician, diplomat, economist, and publicist who served as Minister of European Affairs in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from 2023 to 2025. Dvořák co-founded the Civic Forum in Hradec Králové in 1989. In 1990–1998, he was the mayor of Hradec Králové. He also participated in UN-missions in Kosovo and Iraq. He worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on various position before he became the Minister for European Affairs.
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Tomáš Prouza
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Tomáš Prouza is a Czech economist, former Deputy Minister of Finance (2004–2007) and from January 2014 to March 2017 State Secretary for European Affairs at the Czech Prime Minister's Office. In May 2016 the Government appointed Tomáš Prouza as the coordinator for the digital agenda. His main task was to synchronize and manage all governmental activities and communication for support of the digital economy and digitalization of public administration among the ministries and other central governmental institutions. He resigned his government positions on 31 March 2017 and went to establish his own consulting company EU Politics Advisory. On 1 October 2018 he has become President of the Confederation of Trade and Tourism of the Czech Republic.
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Aleš Michl
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Aleš Michl is a Czech economist and the fifth Governor of the Czech National Bank. He has been a member of the Czech National Bank's Board since 1 December 2018, and was appointed Governor by the President of the Czech Republic, effective from 1 July 2022, for a six-year term.
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Jiří Kobza
- Occupations
- entrepreneurdiplomatgeologistpolitician
- Biography
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Jiří Kobza is a Czech politician, civil servant, businessman and former diplomatic attaché.
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Jiří Dolejš
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- pedagogueeconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Jiří Dolejš is a Czech politician who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2002 to October 2013 and from August 2013 to 2021.
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Jan Mládek
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied in 1979-1983
- Occupations
- pedagogueeconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Mládek is a Czech economist and Social Democratic politician who served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2014 to 2017. Between 2005 and 2006 Mládek also was Minister of Agriculture in Paroubek's cabinet. He also served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Mojmír Hampl
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Mojmír Hampl is a Czech economist and writer, who has been the Chairman of the Czech Fiscal Council since 2022. Previously, from 2019 to 2021, he worked for KPMG Czech Republic as a director responsible for financial sector services. Between 2006 and 2018 he served as a board member of the Czech National Bank. From 2008 he held the post of CNB Vice-Governor. He has been also a co-founder and a board member of the Institute of Economic Education INEV in Prague.
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Maxim Behar
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- journalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Maxim Behar is a Bulgarian businessman of Jewish descent. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of M3 Communications Group, Inc, a public relations and public affairs company, and a Hill+Knowlton Strategies partner since 2000. Behar is also president of the International Communications Consultancy Organization, board member of PR Museum in New York, and a frequent speaker at national and international events. He is also Chairman of the Board of World Communications Forum in Davos.
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Zdeněk Tůma
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- pedagogueeconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Zdeněk Tůma is a Czech economist. From 2000 to 2010, he was Governor of the Czech National Bank (CNB). From 2011 to 2019, he worked in the private sector at the audit and consulting firm KPMG Czech Republic. Since 2019, he has been the chair of the supervisory board of the ČSOB Group.
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Milan Zelený
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- university teacherpedagogueeconomist
- Biography
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Milan Zeleny was a Czech-American economist, a professor of management systems at Fordham University, New York City. He has done research in the field of decision-making, productivity, knowledge management, and business economics. Zeleny was also a visiting professor at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic, and has been academic vice dean and professor at Xidian University in Xi’an, China. He was a distinguished visiting professor at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei in 2006, at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 2007, and at IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro in 2009–10. For many years he has lectured at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Naples.
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Maya Tskitishvili
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- politicianstatespersonjuristofficialeconomist
- Biography
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Maya Tskitishvili, is a Georgian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure from 2018 to 2021, in the cabinet Mamuka Bakhtadze and Giorgi Gakharia. She briefly served as acting prime minister of Georgia following the resignation of Gakharia.
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Karel Pacner
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- editing staffopinion journalistscience fiction writerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Karel Pacner was a Czech publicist, journalist, and writer.
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Pavel Kysilka
- Occupations
- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Pavel Kysilka is a Czech economist. He was head of the Central Bank of the Czech National Bank from 1997 to 1998.
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Martin Jahn
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- economistpoliticianmanager
- Biography
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Martin Jahn is a Czech economist, politician and top manager. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic for Economic Policy from August 2004 to December 2005. Since 2006 he has been working in top management positions for Volkswagen Group in various countries.
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Bianca Bellová
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- novelistshort story writerwritertranslatorinterpreter
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Bianca Bellová is a Czech writer. She was born in Prague. She has written a number of books: Sentimentální román (Sentimental Novel, 2009), Mrtvý muž (Dead Man, 2011), Celý den se nic nestane (Nothing Happens All Day, 2013), Jezero (The Lake, 2016), Mona (2019) and Tyhle fragmenty (These Fragments, 2021). Jezero won the top Czech literary award Magnesia Litera and the EU Prize for Literature in 2016 and has been translated in numerous languages.
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Petr Kopfstein
- Enrolled in the University of Economics, Prague
- Studied mathematical modelling
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Petr Kopfstein is a Czech aerobatic pilot, representing the Czech Republic in flying aerobatics in an Unlimited category, and most recently a racer in the Master Class category of the Red Bull Air Race. He is the first winner of the Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup. After his victory of the whole Challenger Cup in 2014, there were rumors about him moving to Masters; it became a reality for the 2016 season. Péter Besenyei and Paul Bonhomme departed from the series.
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Jiří Havlíček
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Jiří Havlíček is a Czech economist who served as Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic from April until December 2017 in Cabinet of Bohuslav Sobotka.
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Amálie Hilgertová
- Years
- 1997-.. (age 29)
- Occupations
- kayaker
- Biography
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Amálie Hilgertová is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2013.
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Tomáš Pajonk
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tomáš Pajonk is a Czech politician and businessman. He was the leader of the Party of Free Citizens.
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Jana Tichá
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Jana Tichá is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory.
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Alexej Pludek
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- journalistlibrariandramaturgeediting staffeconomist
- Biography
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Alexej Pludek was a Czech writer. In 1950 his play "Případ Modrá Voda" (The Blue Water case) was shown on stage of "stage D50".
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Ondřej Kovařík
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Ondřej Kovařík is a Czech politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 until 2025 He was parliamentary assistant to MEP Dita Charanzová. has since been serving on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, also called ECON, and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, aka LIBE. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Canada. He has studied international trade and international affairs and is affiliated to the ANO 2011 movement set up by Andrej Babiš, former Czech Prime Minister.
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Lukáš Hodboď
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
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Lukáš Hodboď is a Czech middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He reached the final at the 2018 European Championships finishing eighth. On 2019 Summer Universiade he won a bronze medal.
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Edita Hrdá
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Edita Hrdá is a Czech diplomat, Senior Director of the European External Action Service for the Americas from 2015 to 2020 and a permanent representative of the Czech Republic to the European Union from 2020.
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Dana Balcarová
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- ecologistengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Dana Balcarová is a Czech manager, environmentalist and politician, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021, a representative of the Prague 9 district from 2014 to 2018, a member of the Czech Pirate Party.
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Jiří Krejčí
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jiří Krejčí is a retired footballer from Czech Republic.
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Oldřich Dědek
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- university teacherpedagogueeconomist
- Biography
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Oldřich Dědek is a Czech economist. He graduated in agricultural economics from the University of Economics, Prague. He was born in Chlumec nad Cidlinou.
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Jiří Horák
- Occupations
- pedagoguepolitical scientistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Jiří Horák was a Czech politician. He was the first chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
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Vlasta Štěpová
- Occupations
- pedagogueeconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Vlasta Štěpová is a Czech former politician and economist. She was the Czechoslovak Minister of Trade and Tourism in the Federation between 1989 and 1992, as part of the cabinet of firstly František Pitra, then Petr Pithart. She was elected as a member of the Civic Forum to the Czech National Council in June 1990. After spending some time with the Civic Movement (Občanské hnutí), she joined the Social Democratic Party in March 1994. In 1996 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
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Pavel Janáček
- Occupations
- writerhistorianliterary historianliterary scholarliterary critic
- Biography
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Pavel Janáček is a Czech literary historian and critic. His research focus and interests lie in popular literature, pulp fiction and the literary culture of late the 19th and particularly the 20th century. Currently, he specializes in the history of censorship and the social regulation of literature.
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Jana Juřenčáková
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Jana Juřenčáková is a Czech politician and economist. An independent, supported by Mayors and Independents, Juřenčáková became Senator for Zlín as a result of the 2006 Czech Senate election, ahead of incumbent Jiří Stodůlka. After running for re-election in 2012, she finished fourth in the first round of voting, eventually being replaced by Tomio Okamura.
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Vladimír Heger
- Occupations
- basketball playercoachsports journalistbasketball coach
- Biography
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Vladimír Heger was a Czechoslovak basketball player and coach. He was most known for his achievement as head coach of the Czechoslovak and Dutch national team.
