Speaker

Tomáš Petříček was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in October 2018. He is former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and senior advisor to a Member of the European Parliament. He is deputy chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Charles University in Prague and was a Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University. He is fluent in English and conversational in French.