Jaromír K V A P I L

 

            Mr. Jaromir Kvapil was born on March 30, 1949 in Brno.

            After finishing secondary school he started to study foreign trade at the Prague University of Economics and he completed his studies in 1972 in Bucharest, Romania.

            His professional career has begun in 1973 exporting building and road machines at a state owned foreign trade enterprise in Prague. After five years in the field, he spent short period in several financial and economic posts. Then he decided to return back to foreign economic affairs. In 1978, he took the post of the adviser of the department of international economic relations joining the Office of the Czechoslovak Government.

            In November 1990 he was appointed economic counselor at the Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic and later the deputy head of mission in Romania. Following the split of the Czechoslovak Federation on January 1, 1993 he was named Chargé d’Affaires of the Czech Republic in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. In February 1994 he was promoted to the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to both these countries resident in Bucharest.

            After ending his mission in August 1997 he took the post of the Director of the South-Eastern European Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and simultaneously the National Coordinator for the participation of the Czech Republic in the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe since 1999 until his departure to Portugal as the Czech Ambassador in October 2000.

            Since he returned back from Portugal in September 2004 he has been working as the Head of the Prague Office of the OSCE Secretariat.

            Mr. Kvapil is married and has three adult children.

            He has got fluent command of English, Romanian and Moldavian, good command of Russian and essential knowledge of German and Portuguese.