Josef Zieleniec
| Josef Zieleniec | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 12 June 2004 – 2009 |
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| 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic | |
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In office 1 January 1993 – 23 October 1997 |
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| Succeeded by | Jaroslav Šedivý |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 28, 1946 Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality |
 Czech
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| Political party | Public Affairs |
| Other political affiliations |
Civic Democratic Party (1992–2004) SNK European Democrats (2004–9) |
| Alma mater | VŠE |
| Profession | Economist, Politician |
Doc.Ing. Josef Zieleniec, CSc. (born 28 May 1946 in Moscow) is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament. From 2004, he has been a member of the SNK-ED. In the European Parliament, he was a member of the European People's Party and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Zieleniec is currently a lecturer at the Prague academic center of New York University.
Zieleniec was born to Polish parents. He received his Master's degree in 1974 from the University of Economics, Prague, and in 1986 received the postgraduate qualification 'Candidate of Sciences' from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague.
Zieleniec spent most of his professional career working as an economist. From 1973 until the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia's [Velvet Revolution]] in 1989, he worked first as a research fellow in the Institute of Research in Engineering Technology and Economics Research, and later at the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Apart from research in microeconomic theory, he dealt with problems of economic transition from a centrally planned to market economy. The study "Czechoslovakia at the crossroads", based on his research, had a significant impact on discussions of economic reforms after 1989.
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