Ministry Administration
Ing. Rut Bízková, Deputy Minister, Director of the Environmental Economics and Policy Section
Born on 19 July 1957, she is the main author of The Environment in the Czech Republic 1989-2004, analyses of trends in manufacturing and power industries, primary in relation to environmental protection. Having graduated from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, she started work on radiopharmaceuticals and instrumental methods of analysing nuclear materials at the Nuclear Research Institute in Řež in 1981. She completed a post-graduate course in mathematics in 1986-1988 and a three-month internship at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1993. In 1993 she began her orientation on the environment and power industry. In 1994-1998 she worked as the press officer for the ČEZ, a.s., coal power plants and Director of the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of the Environment, after 1999 she was Head of the Department of International Aspects of the Industrial Policy at the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade for Power Industry, Mining and Construction. From 2004 she worked at CENIA – Czech Environmental Information Agency, an allowance organisation of the MoE, achieving the position of Deputy Director. Since September 2006 she has been the Deputy Minister of the Environment. Rut Bízková is married, has one child and is a member of the ODS.
Contact: Ing. Rut Bízková
Veronika Hunt Šafránková, MBA, the Deputy Minister, the Director of the Directorate of Foreign Relations
Veronika was born on May 16, 1978. She graduated from the Anglo-American College in “business administration”, where she also later obtained her MBA degree. In the late 1990s, she worked in the field of finance and marketing. She has worked at the Ministry of Environment since 2000; the areas of her work have ranged from EU pre-accession funds to the relations between the Czech Republic and the EU in the field of the environment. She assisted in setting up the mechanism for coordination of involvement of the Czech Republic in the EU institutions as part of the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU. She became the Director of the European Union Department in 2005 and coordinated the preparation and performance of the Czech Presidency in the EU Council in the area of the environment in the first half of 2009. For this work, she and her team obtained an award from the Minister, Ladislav Miko – Minister’s Prize for 2009. On January 1, 2010, she was appointed as the Deputy Minister and the Director of the Directorate of Foreign Relations. She is married and has one child.
Contact: Veronika Hunt Šafránková, MBA
Ing. Karel Bláha, CSc., Deputy Minister, Director of the Environmental Protection Technology Section
Born in 1953, he studied organic chemistry at the Institute for Chemical Technology, Prague, where he became Candidate of Sciences in this specialisation. He also took post-gradual studies in industrial toxicology at the Institute for Chemical Technology, Pardubice; management of chemical-toxicological risks at the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London; a study stay at the University of Tucson; and a course in the toxicology of heavy metals at the World Health Organisation, Belgrade. After his studies, he worked at the National Institute of Public Health. He has worked at the Ministry of the Environment since 1995. In 1998-2006 he was Director of the Environmental Risks Department; he has been Deputy Minister for Environmental Protection Technology. Karel Bláha is married , has two children, and is not a member of any political party.
Contact: Ing. Karel Bláha, CSc.
Karel Bláha in the Media
Mgr. František Korbel, Ph.D., the Deputy Minister, Director of the Legislation and State Administration Directorate
František Korbel was born on February 29, 1976, in Tábor. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, within the Master’s study program of law and legal science and, subsequently, the doctoral study program in commercial law – consumer protection, and administrative law – free access to information. He was also interested in sociology and mass communications – he studied these subjects at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. He completed several stays at law faculties in Austria and Germany. From 1997 to 1998, he worked at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in Brno, from 1999 to 2001, worked as a lawyer at the Municipal Authority of Tábor and, from 2001 to 2007, as an attorney-at-law. At the same time, from 2002 to 2007, he was a member of the Municipal Assembly and City Council of Tábor and, from September 2006, he acted as the Vice-Chairman of the Government Legislative Council. From 2007 to 2009, he was the Deputy Minister of Justice and headed the Legislative and Legal Directorate. From June to December 2009, he acted as the Director of the Legislative Directorate of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and, in 2009, he was the chairman of the appellate committee of the Minister of Justice and a member of the appellate committee of the Office of the Government. On January 1, 2010, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister for Legislation and State Administration.
Contact: Mgr. František Korbel, Ph.D.
Mgr. Aleš Kuták, Deputy Minister, Director of the Climate and Air Protection Section
Born on 19 October 1972, he studied Environmental Protection and Management at the Palacký University, Olomouc. After graduation, he worked on projects of citizen involvement in solving local environmental problems at Hnutí Duha and Centre for Community Work in Plzeň. In 1997-2002 he was an extern lecturer at the University of West Bohemia Faculty of Education Department of Geography in Plzeň. In 1998-2004 he worked at the Centre for Transport and Energy besides co-ordinating the Transportation for the 21st Century programme at the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation in 2000-2003. Since 2005 he has worked at the MoE, first as Deputy Minister of the Environment for Transport; he was appointed Deputy Minister for Climate and Air Protection on 23 April 2007. Aleš Kuták is single, has one child, and is not a member of any political party.
Contact: Mgr. Aleš Kuták
RNDr. František Pelc, Deputy Minister, Director of the Nature and Landscape Protection Section
Born on 4 October 1962, he graduated from the Charles University Faculty of Science, Prague. He has pursued landscape ecology, regeneration of montane forest, biodiversity protection, and relations of protected areas and regional development. In 1990-1995 he was Head of the Jizerské Hory Protected Landscape Area Administration, he headed the National Protected Landscape Area Directorate for the seven successive years. In 1998-2002 he was a town councillor in Turnov. In 2002 he was elected a Member of the Parliament for the US-DEU. In 2006 he returned to Protected Landscape Area management as the Director of the newly transformed Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection. In September 2007 he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Environment. In 1993 he set up the Foundation to Save and Renew the Jizerské Hory. Member of the scientific boards of the Czech University of Life Sciences Faculty of Environmental Sciences and the Czech Forest Co. František Pelc is married and has two sons. He is not a member of any political party.
Contact: RNDr. František Pelc
