Jan Mladek, Ph.D.

Jan Mladek graduated from the University of Economics in Prague (1983) and passed two-years’ course in mathematics and physics Faculty of Charles University (1989). He obtained the Ph.D. in the Prognostics Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1990). During the period of 1991-2 he was appointed as the deputy federal minister of economy and from 1999 to 2001 as the deputy minister of finance. In the years 1993-8 he cooperated with the Central European University, Prague/Budapest on the study of the transformation and privatization of the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe; also acted in the civil service as adviser to the Minister of Trade and Industry, member of the Steering Committee for the privatization of banks and representative of the Czech National Bank Governor in the International Monetary Fund. He has published many scientific papers at home and abroad. His main task within the Czech Social Democratic Party structure is to chair the economics committee. Between June 2002 and December 2005 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament; he held the position of the minister of agriculture during the years 2005-6. Currently vice chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Czech Post, state enterprise, director of the Czech Institute of Applied Economics and the chairman of the FONTES RERUM, cooperative for economic, political and social studies.