Tomáš Hudeček
| Tomáš Hudeček | |
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| Mayor of Prague | |
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In office 20 June 2013 – 26 November 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Bohuslav Svoboda |
| Succeeded by | Adriana Krnáčová |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 May 1979 Olomouc, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality |
 Czech Republic
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| Political party |
TOP 09 (2009-2014) Independent (2014-present) |
| Alma mater |
Palacký University, Olomouc Charles University in Prague |
Tomáš Hudeček (born 10 May 1979) is a natural scientist, university professor and Czech politician. He is the head of Department of Public Administration and Regional Studies at Czech Technical University in Prague.
In 2010 he was elected to the Municipal Assembly in Prague as a candidate of the TOP 09 party. On 24 November 2011 he became a member of the executive council of Prague and the Deputy Mayor of Bohuslav Svoboda. Hudeček was elected deputy mayor of Prague between 24 November 2011 and 23 May 2013, then deputy mayor with the responsibilities of Mayor during the May and June 2013 days of flood in Prague, and Mayor of Prague between 20 June 2013 and 26 October 2014.
During his term new important strategic dokuments has been elaborated: Metropolitan Land Use Plan, Strategic Plan, Prague Building Regulations, Public Space Manual, Development Plan of the Banks of Vltava River and many others. He establish the Institute of Planning and Development with an annual budget of over 15 million Euros and 200 employees - as an organization able to face the complexity of the city.
He has been known for establishing an "expert participation" as a system of managing the city. For this reason more than 1500 experts, urban planners, geographers, architects, engineers and technicians, economists, as well as philosophers, theologians, lawyers, doctors, teachers, and many other representatives of proffessional chambers, as well as representatives of civic association (NGO) and major business corporations participated in more than 200 round table discussions and conferences with the aim to aggregate additional - even soft - data, information and knowledge.
In 1997 he graduated from high school in Olomouc-Heychyn and enrolled at the Palacký University, Olomouc Faculty of Science - Math and Geography. After graduation Hudeček continued his doctoral studies Faculty of Science Charles University, specialty "Social Geography and Regional Development". The result of his doctoral studies he became a defense of the dissertation in the field of transport geography and geographic information systems and obtaining academic degrees of Doctor of Science (RNDr.) and Ph.D.
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