Work experience

2016 – present

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the Council of Europe

2008 – 2016

Director, EU Law Department

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

2007 – 2008

Deputy Director, EU Law Department

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

2005 

Third Secretary at the Czech Embassy in London

(short-term posting during the UK Presidency in the Council of the EU)

2004 – 2007 

Lawyer, EU Law Department

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

2002 – 2004 

Diplomatic Academy (incl. short-term postings in Berlin and London)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

2001 – 2002

Trainee Lawyer

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Attorneys at Law

Education

2011             Fordham Law School, New York (Visiting Fulbright Scholar)

2000 – 2001 Humboldt University in Berlin, School of Law

1996 – 1997 Cardiff University, School of Law (Diploma in Law and Politics)

1993 – 2001 Faculty of Law, Charles University Prague (PhD in 2007)

Language skills

English, German, partially French and Russian