Personal details

• Czech
• Born May 24, 1962 in Sokolov, Czech Republic
• Married
• 3 children

Current duties

• Since February 2010: Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy
Political career
• May 2009 – November 2009: Minister of European Affairs of the Czech Republic
• 2001 – 2002: First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic
Professional career
• 2005 – 2009: Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation
• 2003 – 2005: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• 1998 – 2001: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the
Republic of Lithuania (2000 – 2001 NATO Contact Point Embassy in Republic of Lithuania)
• 1996 – 1998: Director, Security Policy Dept., Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
• 1995 – 1996: Director, United Nations Dept., Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
• 1994 – 1995: Delegation Member and Alternate Representative of the Czech Republic to the
United Nations Security Council
• 1990 – 1995 First Secretary, Permanent Delegation of the Czechoslovak Federative (later Czech)
Republic at United Nations
• 1987 – 1990 Desk Officer, United Nations Dept., Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Czechoslovak Federative Republic

Other activities

• Golden Lime Tree of Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic (2008)
• Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, 3rd Class (2002)
• Cross of Merit of Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic, Grade I. (2002)

Education

• 1988: UN disarmament study program
• 1981 – 1986: Moscow State Institute of International Relations
• 1980 – 1981: Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague

Languages

• Czech: mother tongue
• English and Russian: thorough knowledge
• French and German: basic knowledge