Jan Mládek

Ing. Jan Mládek, CSc.

Jan Mládek in 2016
11th Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
Assumed office
29 January 2014
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
Preceded by Jiří Cieńciała
5th Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic
In office
16 November 2005 – 4 September 2006
Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek
Preceded by Petr Zgarba
Succeeded by Milena Vicenová
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
15 June 2002 – 2 December 2005
Personal details
Born (1960-06-01) 1 June 1960
Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia
Political party Czech Social Democratic Party (from 1995)
Website Official website

Jan Mládek (born June 1, 1960, Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech economist and politician (ČSSD). Since January 2014, Minister of Industry and Trade, in years 2005–2006 he was Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, beginning of 21st century he was Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Czech Social Democratic Party.[1]

Mládek graduated from University of Economics in Prague in 1983. Then in the years 1985–1990 he studied at Forecasting Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where in April 1990 he received the title of Candidate of Sciences. Moreover, he studied for two years (1987–1989) Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague.[2]

He is married and has five children.[2]

In 1991 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Economics at Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. In the years 1991–1992 he worked in the position of advisor to the Federal Minister of Economics and later as his Deputy Minister. In the period 1992–1995 Mládek worked as an external advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade. In 1993–1998 he cooperated with the Central European University in Prague / Budapest in the study of transformation and privatization of the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In the period 1998–1999 he served as Deputy Vice Prime Minister for Economic Policy and from 1999 to May 2001 he was the First Deputy Minister of Finance. In 1999–2001 he was Vice-Governor of the International Monetary Fund for the Czech Republic.[1]

In the 2002 elections Mládek was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Social Democrats.[3] He was a member of the Budget Committee and in 2002–2004 also the Foreign Committee. He remained in the Chamber of Deputies until December 2005, when he resigned mandate.[4] In 2004–2005, he worked as an economic advisor to the Prime Minister[1] and subsequently became a member of the Cabinet directly. In November 2005 he was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture in the Paroubek's government. At the post he remained until the end of the term of government, until August 2006.[5]

In the Czech Social Democratic Party he is active as Chairman of the party's Economic Policy Committee. He hold the post of party's shadow finance minister. [2]

In 2001 he requested that the National Security Agency carry out a “classified” level screening but it refused to grant a screening at that level (he only acquired the lowest ranking of “restricted”). [6]

In January 2014 he was the ČSSD candidate for the post of Minister of Industry and Trade in the Government of Bohuslav Sobotka.[7] On 29 January 2014 he was appointed to this position. He has been active in the ČSSD as President of the party’s National Economic Commission. During the period from 2008–2009 he was Director of the Masaryk Workers’ Academy. In October 2006 he was again appointed Director of the Czech Institute of Applied Economics. Until the start of the year 2014 he was Chairman of FONTES RERUM, a cooperative for economic, political and social studies.

Jan Mladek speaks fluent English, Russian and Polish.

Bibliography (selection)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ing. Jan Mládek, CSc." (in Czech). vlada.cz. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  2. 1 2 3 "Politický životopis" (in Czech). mladek.eu. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  3. ↑ "Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 14. - 15.6.2002" (in Czech). volby.cz. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  4. ↑ "Jan Mládek" (in Czech). Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  5. ↑ "Jiří Paroubek's cabinet" (in Czech). vlada.cz. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  6. ↑ "Ministr Mládek nedostal prověrku" (in Czech). iDNES.cz. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
  7. ↑ "Coalition signed" (in Czech). Retrieved 2014-07-23.
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