The Minister

Pavel Drobil was born on 18 October 1971 in Bruntál. After graduating from secondary school in Bohumín, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno (graduating in 1995). He began his professional career in 1995 with Arthur Andersen & Co as an assistant in the Department of Business and Tax Law for international clientele. In 1996, he became a partner of the Pyšný, Weber & Partneři Law Firm in Ostrava. He sat for his lawyer’s examination in 1998. In 2001 and 2002, he was employed as a consultant to the Deputy Ministers of Finance Jaroslav Šulc and Miloslav Hejnák.

Between 2004 and 2008, he held the position of Deputy Regional Administrator of the Moravian-Silesian Region for Economic Development where, amongst other things, he was responsible for construction of the Nošovice industrial zone. From 2007 to 2010, he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lesy České republiky (Forests of the Czech Republic).

He has been a member of the ODS (CDP) party since 2000. In 2002, he was elected to the City Assembly of Bohumín and has been a member of the Executive Council since 2006. He led ODS in the recent elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the Moravian-Silesian Region and was elected Member of Parliament. He was elected vice-chairman of ODS in June of 2010.

On 13 July 2010, the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus, appointed him to the position of Minister of the Environment. Pavel Drobil is married and has two children.

Contacts:
Phone: +420 26712 2713, +420 26712 2710
Fax: +420 26712 6564
Email: pavel.drobil@mzp.cz