Born on the 4^th of April, 1978, in Pilsen.

 

Education

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, International Studies (BA), Russian and Eastern European Studies (MA).

Study stays at the University of Durham and St. Petersburg State University.

 

Employment

since 2023     Deputy of the Cabinet Minister

2022-2023     Special Envoy for the Eastern Partnership, MFA

2022               Acting Director, Department of Communications, MFA (April-September)

2021               Czech Embassy in Moscow (short-term posting at the Political Unit, September-November)

2018-2022     Common Foreign and Security Policy Department, MFA (counter-disinformation agenda and CFSP coordination)

2014-2018     COEST Delegate (Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Permanent Representation of Czechia to the European Union, Brussels

2008-2014     Head of Unit (agenda: Russian Federation, Belarus, Eastern Partnership), Department of Northern and Eastern Europe, MFA of Czechia

2006-2008     Executive Director, Civic Belarus (www.civicbelarus.eu); Consultant, Prague Security Studies Institute (www.pssi.cz)

2003-2006     Project Manager, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Media Trust Communications

2000-2002     People in Need

1998-2000     Editor, Czech Information Agency

 

Other Experience

2019-              External Lecturer, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

2022-              Mentor, Security Academy, European Values think-tank

1996-2008     Association for International Affairs (Vice-Chairman 1998-2003; www.amo.cz)

1998               Internship at the Prague Office of the OSCE Secretariat

2006-              Participation in OSCE Election Observation Missions

2019               CEPA Transatlantic Fellowship, Washington, DC

 

Languages

English, Russian, German                            active knowledge

French, Belarusian, Polish, Ukrainian        partial knowledge

 

Twitter: @HonzaMarian