Jan Mládek MP |
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11th Minister of Industry and Trade | |
In office 29 January 2014 – 28 February 2017 |
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Prime Minister | Bohuslav Sobotka |
Preceded by | Jiří Cieńciała |
Succeeded by | Bohuslav Sobotka (Acting) |
5th Minister of Agriculture | |
In office 16 November 2005 – 4 September 2006 |
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Prime Minister | Jiří Paroubek |
Preceded by | Petr Zgarba |
Succeeded by | Milena Vicenová |
Member of Parliament for South Bohemian Region |
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Assumed office 26 October 2013 |
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In office 15 June 2002 – 2 December 2005 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia |
1 June 1960
Political party | Czech Social Democratic Party (since 1995) |
Website | Official website |
Jan Mládek (born June 1, 1960) 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 is Member of Parliament (MP) for South Bohemian Region.
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.
He is married and has five children.
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.