Jan Mládek
Czech economist and politician
Jan Mládek (born June 1, 1960) is a Czech economist and Social Democratic politician who served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2014 to 2017. Between 2005 and 2006 Mládek also was Minister of Agriculture in Paroubek's cabinet. He also served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Mládek graduated from University of Economics in Prague in 1983. Then in the years 1985–1990 he studied at the Forecasting Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where in April 1990 he received the title of Candidate of Sciences. Moreover, he spent two years studying (1987–1989) Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague.
He is married and has five children.
In 1991 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Economics at Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. In the years 1991–1992 he worked in the position of advisor to the Federal Minister of Economics and later as his Deputy Minister. In the period from 1992 to 1995 Mládek worked as an external advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade.
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