Jan Fischer (politician)
Jan Fischer | |
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| Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | |
| Assumed office 9 April 2009 | |
| President | Václav Klaus |
| Preceded by | Mirek Topolánek |
| Succeeded by | in office |
| president of the Czech Statistical Office | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 2, 1951 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party | independent |
Jan Fischer (January 2, 1951, Prague) is the current president of the Czech Statistical Office since 2003.[1] On 9 April he has been named Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
Biography
Jan Fiser graduated from the University of Economics, Prague in 1974 as an engineer in statistics and economics. He enrolled in postgraduate studies in 1985 and earned his Candidate of Sciences in the field of economic statistics. His father dealt with applications of mathematics and statistics in genetics and medicine.
From 1980 to 1989 he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Immediately after graduating he joined the Federal Statistical Office. In 1990 he became its vice-chairman and held this position until the termination of Czechoslovakia. Since the beginning of the 1990s he led the team that treats the results of parliamentary and local elections, within its competence and contacts one of the EU statistical offices, Eurostat. He was also vice-chairman from the beginning of the newly established Czech Statistical Office. In 2001 he participated in the mission of the IMF research for the possibility of an establishment of the Statistical Office in Timor-Leste. Since September 2000, he was the director of the production company Taylor Nelson Sofres Factum. From March 2002 until April 2003 he served as head of research institutes at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics University. He was was appointed president of the Czech Statistical Office on April 24, 2003.
He is a member of the Czech Statistical Society, the International Statistical Institute (ISI), the Scientific Council and Board of Trustees and a Scientific Board of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.
He is married with second wife and has three children.
Prime Minister
After the collapse of Mirek Topolánek's government in March 2009, Fischer was proposed to be the next Prime Minister until elections expected in October.[2]
Reference
External links
- Jan Fischer - President of the CZSO official CV
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