Jan Fulik graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague and worked as an assistant to the director of one of the studios of the Prague Project Enterprise. Here he cooperated mainly in extensive construction investment projects and in the field of Cultural Heritage Conservation. He later completed his studies and study/educational stay and internships in the Czech Republic, Great Britain and Canada.

After the all-social changes in Czechoslovakia in 1989; in early 1990 he accepted an offer to work for State Security Forces within the Federal Ministry of Interior. In the Federal Police Corps he gradually filled several management positions and participated in the corps divisions into the Czech and Slovak part. After the establishment of the independent Czech Republic in 1993, he worked as Deputy Police President and subsequently left the Police Force for the Economic Department of the Ministry of the Interior, where he held the position of Deputy Chief Director for Property Management, Logistics and Acquisitions.

During preparations for the Czech Republic's accession to NATO, he moved to the Ministry of Defense in 1996, where he was involved in the transformation of economic legislation and in backbone infrastructure projects of the Alliance in the Czech Republic until 2002.

From 2003 to 2004, he worked in the Security Information Service, first as an advisor to the director and later as the Chief Director of the Analytical Section.

Since 2004, he has served as a Senior Advisor with executive powers in the temporary administration of Iraq. After the handover of power back to Iraqi hands, he remained as a Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Interior Minister.

After returning to the Czech Republic in 2005, he first served as an advisor to the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Foreign Security Policy and Energy Security. Later, in 2006, he became first as Advisor to the First Deputy Minister of Defense for Security Policy and exportation of Defense Technology, and was later appointed Deputy Minister of Defense for International Relations. In addition to the defense policy, his responsibilities included the administration of state property, management of state-owned enterprises in the field of defense and later also central acquisitions.

From 2013 to 2015, he served as Director of the Security Department in the Office of the President of the Republic, where he was a member of national committees in the field of internal and foreign security and defense policy, crisis management and represented the Office of the President (or else the President) regularly in meetings of the Defense Council of the State and the Government of the Czech Republic.

Prior to his departure to Egypt, he worked as the Director of Human Resources at the National Library of the Czech Republic in 2016, while preparing for diplomatic work abroad.

Ambassador Jan Fulík has also been active in the Czech Republic and international associations and professional societies that are dedicated to the history and protection of cultural heritage for more than thirty years.