Jan Fischer (politician)
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 May 2009
President Václav Klaus
Preceded by Mirek Topolánek
President of the European Council
In office
8 May 2009 – 30 June 2009
Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by Mirek Topolánek
Succeeded by Fredrik Reinfeldt
President of the Czech Statistical Office
Incumbent Assumed office
24 April 2003
Preceded by Marie Bohatá
Born 2 January 1951 (age 58) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Political party Independent (1989 – present)
Other political
affiliations Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1980 – 1989)
Spouse(s) Dana Fischerová
Alma mater University of Economics, Prague
Religion Judaism
Jan Fischer (born 2 January 1951) is the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and since 2003 has been the president of the Czech Statistical Office.
Biography
Personal life and education
Jan Fischer was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia into a family of mathematicians. His father was a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences, specialized in mathematical and statistical applications in genetics, selective growing and medicine.[1] His mother was a statistician. Jan Fischer is Jewish.[2][3]
He graduated from the University of Economics, Prague in 1974 in statistics and econometrics. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Economics in 1985, earning his Candidate of Sciences degree in the field of economic statistics. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1980 till the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989.
Jan Fischer is married for the second time and has 3 children. His son Jakub, a statistician, is an Associate Professor and Subdean at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics, Prague.
Career
Immediately after graduation, he joined the Federal Statistical Office. In 1990 he became its vice-chairman and held this position until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Since the beginning of the 1990s he has led the team handling results of parliamentary and local elections. He also served as vice-chairman of the newly established Czech Statistical Office. In 2001 he participated in the mission of the IMF research, whose purpose was to explore possibilities of establishing a statistical office in East Timor. In September 2000, he became Production Director of Taylor Nelson Sofres Factum. From March 2002 to April 2003 he worked as chief of research institutes at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics in Prague. He was appointed president of the Czech Statistical Office on 24 April 2003.
He is a member of the Czech Statistical Society, the International Statistical Institute, the Scientific Council and Board of Trustees and a Scientific Board of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.
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 June 2010.[4] He constituted his Government on 8 May 2009.
References
1. ^ a b Jan Fischer - President of the CZSO
2. ^ (Czech) Manžel tak nevypadá, ale je vtipný, říká žena nového premiéra
3. ^ (Czech) Synovi premiéra hrozí nebezpečí, policie hlídá i rodinu ministra vnitra
4. ^ Outgoing cabinet and opposition agree on new PM
External links
• Jan Fischer - President of the CZSO official CV
Political offices
Preceded by
Mirek Topolánek
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
2009–present Incumbent
President of the European Council
2009
Succeeded by
Fredrik Reinfeldt
