Ministry Administration

Jakub Kulíšek, First Deputy Minister and Director of Economics and Environmental Policy

Jakub Kulíšek was born on 23 January 1981 in Prerov. In 2003 he graduated Bachelor's program management and marketing of foreign trade on The Polytechnic Institute. In 2006 he graduated as Ing. at the University of Finance and Administration, where he studied business management and corporate finance. Into position of 1st Deputy Minister he came from the post of Deputy Adviser to the Minister of Industry and Trade for the economic and social cohesion in the European Union.

Jakub Kulíšek is since 2000 member of the ODS (Civil Democratic Party). He is single and childless.

PhDr. Ivo Hlaváč, Deputy Minister, Director of the Directorate of Technical Protection of the Environment

Ivo Hlaváč was born on 24 March 1976 in Ostrava. In 1994 – 1999, he studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc (obtaining the title of Mgr. in 2000). He utilized a post-graduate stipendium from the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc to study at L´Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and obtained the title PhDr. at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc in 2001. He underwent certified study stays at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2003 and 2010) and the Paris Ecole Nationale d’administration (2004) and undertook external doctoral studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc in 2004. At the present time he is undergoing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague.

He was employed as an assistant at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc in 2000 – 2001, was a scientific worker at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 2000 – 2002 and worked as an external analyst of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague in 2003 – 2005. He was employed as an analyst by the Ministry of the Interior in 2001 – 2005 and was employed at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic in 2005 in the area of information on European affairs. In 2006, he was a specialist on European agenda in ČEZ, a.s. He then acted as the Ist Deputy Minister for European Affairs at the Ministry for Regional Development. He was the Ist Deputy Minister of Agriculture in 2007 – 2009. He has also been employed as a consultant in the areas of the environment and energy production. On 14 July 2010, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Environment and Director of the Directorate of Technical Protection of the Environment.

Ivo Hlaváč is a member of the ODS party. He speaks English, French, Italian, Polish and Russian. He frequently publishes articles and is a member of the Alumni network of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Ivo Hlaváč is married and has two sons.

Ing. Libor Ježek, Directorate of State Administration – Deputy Minister - State Secretary

Libor Jezek was born in 1961 in Varnsdorf. He studied economics and management of electrical engineering at the Technical University in Prague. After graduation he worked in ZSE Elektro-Praga in Jablonec as head of information systems. Between 1991 and 1993 he served as director of the Tax Office in Tanvald. He later headed the economic department and was a partner in the firm Jablotron Ltd. In 1995, was authorized tax advisor, and two years later was appointed auditor. Into the Civic Democratic Party came in 1998 and the next two years sat in the Chamber of Deputies. In the years 2006 - 2010 he served as Vice President in the House Audit Committee. From 2002 to 2010, the representatives of the city Tanvald.

Ing. Tomáš Tesař, Deputy Minister, Director of the Directorate of Protection of Nature and the Landscape

Tomáš Tesař was born on 25 September 1963 in Prague. After graduating from Secondary Grammar School in Holice u Pardubic, Mr. Tesař completed the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University in Liberec. He worked in the Stavokonstrukce state enterprise and, from 1990, in the Čechofracht a.s. foreign trade enterprise in Děčín, which was gradually privatized and converted into the topsped company. For the last six years, to 31 August, he held the positions of executive and director of the company.

Since the summer of 2009, he has been a member of the TOP 09 party, member of the executive committee of TOP 09 and chairman of the TOP 09 regional organization in the Ústí region. Prior to this, he was not a member of any political party or association.

On 1 September 2010, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Environment and Director of the Directorate of Protection of Nature and the Landscape. Tomáš Tesař is married and has one daughter and two sons.

Tomáš Vrbík, Deputy Minister, the director the office of the Ministry

Tomáš Vrbík was born on 15 January 1973 in Litoměřice in Northern Bohemia. He graduated from the Secondary Technical School of Chemistry and then studied at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in the field of Andragogy. He currently studies at the College of Information Management and Business Administration in the field of Law in Public Administration. From 1992 to 1994, he worked in the press department of the ODS (Civic Democratic Party) Head Office and, in 1995, in the Office of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament as an assistant to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. From 1996 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2003, he worked in the private sector, focusing on the areas of advertising and public relations.

In 1994-1998, he was a member of the Municipal Assembly and of the Council of the City Ward of Prague 2 and, in 1998-2002, he was also a member of the City Assembly of the Capital City of Prague (in 1998-1999, the chairman of the control committee). In 2003, he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament and worked there as a member of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and of the Committee for Defence and Security; he also participated in the Temporary Commission on the Aspects of the Constitution of the Czech Republic and also in the Permanent Commission for the Media.

From 2006, he worked for the Government led by PM Mirek Topolánek as the director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Finance and, from 2007, as the director of the Office of the Deputy Minister of the Interior responsible for public administration, IT, legislation and archiving, where he participated particularly in the implementation of projects concerned with e-government. From the end of 2009, he was the head of the political section of the ODS Head Office.

On 14 July 2010, he was appointed as the director the office of the Ministry of the Environment and, since 1 October 2010, he has been a Deputy Minister. From 1991 to 1997, he was a member of the Civic Democratic Party; he again joined the party in 2009. In 1998-2004, he was a member of the Freedom Union (Unie svobody). Tomáš Vrbík is married and has one daughter.

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