Radek Matula

Date of Birth: February 17, 1964

Radek Matula has been working at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1993, holding a number of managerial positions both at the headquarters and at embassies abroad. He spent nine years in Moscow, five of them as Deputy Head of Mission. He was responsible for establishing the Czech Embassy in Baku, where he first served as a non-resident and later as the first Czech resident Ambassador to Azerbaijan. He headed the Embassy in Kyiv for almost seven years. Following the evacuation of the Embassy in February 2022 in connection with the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he returned to Kyiv in May 2022 and continued to lead the Embassy until the end of October 2023.

In August 2025, he was posted to Sweden, where on 11 September 2025 he presented his credentials to His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and thereby officially assumed his duties as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the Kingdom of Sweden.

 

Professional experience:

Since September 2025	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Kingdom of Sweden
Nov 2023 – Jul 2025	Head of Director General’s Office, Economic and Operational Section
Jan 2017 – Oct 2023	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Ukraine
Feb 2015 – Jan 2017	Deputy Director, Department of Northern and Eastern Europe
Feb 2014 – Jan 2015	Head of the West and North European Unit, Department of Northern and Eastern Europe
Jul 2008 – Jan 2014	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Azerbaijan
Jan 2008 – Jun 2008	Head of the East European Unit, Department of Northern and Eastern Europe
Nov 2006 – Dec 2007	Head of the East European Unit, Department of South-Eastern and Eastern Europe
Nov 2001 – Oct 2006	Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Czech Republic in the Russian Federation
Aug 2000 – Nov 2001	Deputy Director, Department of Eastern Europe
Aug 1999 – Jul 2000	Acting Director, Department of Eastern Europe
Dec 1998 – Jul 1999	Deputy Director, Department of Eastern Europe
Aug 1994 – Nov 1998	Second Secretary and later First Secretary, Political Section, Embassy of the Czech Republic in the Russian Federation
Oct 1993 – Aug 1994	Desk Officer, Third Territorial Department (Eastern Europe)
Since October 1993	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic