Professional Experience

 

2010 – present             Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the

                                         Syrian Arab Republic

 

2004 – 2010                 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the 

                                         Republic of Turkey     

 

2002 - 2004                  Director - Middle East and Africa               

                                                                             

1997 - 2002                   Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the

                                         Republic of Lebanon         

                                                                   

1991 – 1996                   Chargé d´affaires e.p. Iraq, Baghdad

 

1991 - present           Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic            

 

1981 – 1991                Freelancer

                                       - translator, Interpreter, Publisher                                          

1972 - 1981                Czechoslovak News Agency

                                       - journalist - Czech-Arabic relations  

1969 – 1972              Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Prague                             

                                        - researcher - ottomanology research                                       

1968 – 1969             Czechoslovak Radio Broadcast Station

                                      Foreign Service Section                                      

                                       - journalist - Czech-Arabic relations

                                                            

Education

1981                              Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Philosophy (PhDr.)

1979                              University of Tunis, Bourghiba Institute of Foreign Languages

1968                             University in Münster, Germany, Oriental Studies

1967                              University of Tunis: Bourghiba Institute of Foreign Languages

1962 - 1967                 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Philosophy - major: Middle Eastern Studies

 

 

Languages - English, Arabic, Turkish, French, German