Our educational institution, the only one of its kind in the Czech Republic, provides instruction to those interested in the private and state sectors. It passes on the knowledge and experience of people with unique practice: representatives of the state, the private sector and the academic community. The Diplomatic Academy complements theoretical knowledge with a practical outlook that can be useful to all and without question aids professional and personal growth.
Born on November 24, 1956, in Prague, where he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in 1980.
From 1980 to 1983, he worked as a specialist consultant at the company Transgas, subsequently serving as a notary. In 1990, he became an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government for human rights, restitution, and relations between the state and churches. Later, until 1992, he served as the director of the legislative section at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, and thereafter until 1996 as the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic. From January 1997, he was entrusted with the interim management of the Legislative Council of the Czech Government, where he had been serving as Deputy Chairman since 1992.
From July 1996, he served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for matters related to the Czech Republic's accession to the EU. From January 2, 1998, to July 23, 1998, he served as the Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic and simultaneously as the head of the delegation leading negotiations with EU representatives on the conditions for the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union.
Security Expert, Former Diplomat
He graduated in foreign trade from the University of Economics in Prague. Later, he joined the Czech Ministry of Defense as part of the committee for international relations. He participated in negotiations regarding the entry of Czechoslovakia into the European Community. Subsequently, he worked at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the head of the foreign relations department and as a deputy minister. He chaired the government team responsible for the Czech Republic's accession to NATO. At the beginning of the millennium, he served as an ambassador to India and later to Japan. Since 2011, he has been retired and has lectured at the Diplomatic Institute. For several years, he served as part of the advisory team to Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.
Former Chief of the Intelligence Service
General Major František Štěpánek served as the Commander of the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade, Commander of the 2nd Army Corps, and Chief of the Military Intelligence Service. He acted as the Czech Republic's national representative at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons.
Former Prime Minister
He studied at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, specializing in history and prehistory. From 1998 to 2002, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the government of Miloš Zeman. Following the parliamentary elections in 2002, he rejected the continuation of the opposition agreement and led the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) to secure 30% of the vote. On July 12, 2002, he was appointed as the Prime Minister. From 2004 to 2010, he served as the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities. He initiated the establishment of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).
Former Minister and Diplomat
Milena Vicenová is a Czech veterinary doctor, editor, public official, and politician.
From 2006 to 2007, she served as the Minister of Agriculture in the first government of Mirek Topolánek. On September 20, 2007, the government appointed her as the new Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the European Union in Brussels. Upon her return from this mission, she worked as an analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and since September 2014, she has been working at the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in the field of international cooperation. She lectures on the topic of the European Union.
Former Ambassador
Josef Havlas is a mathematician, and his works in the field have been published in English as well. He served as an ambassador to Ireland and Japan and acted as the Czech chargé d'affaires in Iran.
Former Personal Secretary to Václav Havel
Jakub Hladík is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague, where he earned an engineering degree and a Ph.D. in International Political Relations. He also obtained an MBA from the American business school Thunderbird, School of International Management.
From 1996 to 2003, he worked in the Protocol Department of the Office of the President of the Republic, where he organized numerous foreign trips for the president, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Summit and the NATO Summit in Prague. From 2003 to 2008, he served as the personal secretary to Václav Havel. He also has experience in the role of secretary from the corporate sector.
State Secretary and Expert in Education and Public Administration
Ondřej Andrys graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc and completed postgraduate studies in the joint international MAE-MBA program at the University of Economics in Prague and Jean Moulin University in Lyon. From 2012 to 2022, he served as the Deputy Chief School Inspector of the Czech Republic and currently holds the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MŠMT).
He is a recipient of the Medal of the National Education Commission of the Republic of Poland, the Vasyl Stus Medal from Ukraine, and the Czech National Medal for Merit in Security.
Lawyer and Mediator
She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. She completed her legal traineeship in two renowned law firms.
After successfully passing the bar exams in 2000 and completing rigorous postgraduate studies, culminating in the attainment of the title of Doctor of Laws, she established her own legal practice in 2003 and gradually built up a broad local and international clientele.
Since 2011, she has been a permanent lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Prague, where she serves as the guarantor of the field of Public International Law and the field of Negotiation and Mediation.
Since 2013, she has also worked as a registered mediator, accredited by the Czech Bar Association and the Ministry of Justice. In her practice, she applies one of the methods of alternative (out-of-court) dispute resolution.
Expert in European Law
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, the Ecole nationale d'Administration in Strasbourg and the CELSA Institute at the Université Paris Sorbonne, where he received a master's degree in public institution communication.
His professional career to date includes work in both the public and private sectors. In 2003 - 2005, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, where he dealt with relations with the EU in the period before and after the Czech Republic's accession to the EU. In 2005 - 2010, he worked at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic in the Legislative Council section of the Government, where he was the head of the EU legislative process department, which dealt with analytical work on the impacts of draft EU legislation on the Czech legal order. As part of these activities, he also had the opportunity to regularly participate in negotiations in EU institutions, especially in the structures of the Council of the EU. After a two-year study break abroad, he has been working in the private sector since 2012, where he worked as a corporate lawyer for the multinational insurance group AXA from 2012 to 2017, and since 2017 he has been a corporate lawyer in the SYNTHOS group operating in the chemical industry and energy sector.
Author of the First Comprehensive Publication on Islamic Law
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, with a thesis on the Influence of Islamic Law on the Constitutional Law of Selected Islamic Countries. He published the book *Sharia – An Introduction to Islamic Law* (2012). He works in public administration, specializing in administrative law, particularly misdemeanor law, assembly law, and extremism.
He focuses on both the fundamental aspects of Islamic law and its historical development. He analyzes in detail the main religious-legal obligations of individuals in Islamic society, as well as family law, inheritance law, property law, and criminal law.
Petra Stejskalová graduated in Bohemistics from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague. For thirty years, she taught at various levels of schools while also engaging in editorial work for several publishing houses. Currently, she serves as the director of a small municipal library.
Editor, Proofreader, Journalist, and Teacher
Petra Zaviačičová is a co-author of materials for teaching typing on typewriters and computers. She has extensive experience in text processing across several editorial offices (from converting author manuscripts into computer files for printing to working as a proofreader and editor).
Professionally, she operates in two fields – media and education. In doing so, she combines various aspects of written expression, from its technical side to the creative process of writing itself. She has long-term collaborations with various publishing houses and served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine *Planeta Země*.
Expert in Media Communication
He studied the field of finance and credit at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Economics in Prague. Ten years later, he successfully completed studies in history at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague. He finalized his doctoral education in 2014.
Since 1986, he has been teaching at the University of Economics in Prague, initially in the section of economic history at the Department of National Economic Planning.
In 2015, he became a member of the Council of Czech Television, and in June 2020, he was elected as the vice-chairman of the council.
Head of the Department of Voice and Speech Training at DAMU.
Regina Szymiková is a pedagogue specializing in voice training, stage speech, and acting – professional practice in the field. She leads the Department of Voice and Speech Training at DAMU and has long-term collaboration as a voice consultant with the Vinohrady Theatre.
Researcher, Academy of Sciences.
He works at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He specializes in Czechoslovak foreign policy and its European contexts. Among other works, he is the author of the book *Unfulfilled Hopes: Political and Diplomatic Relations between Czechoslovakia and Great Britain from the Birth of the First Republic to the Munich Conference (1918–1938)* and an extensive portrait of the second Czechoslovak president – Edvard Beneš.
Former General Director of the Prison Service.
Brigadier General Jiří Tregler has been working in prison service institutions since 1986. In 1995, he assumed the position of the first deputy director of the Pardubice prison, and five years later, he became its director. He is a graduate of the fields of social pathology and prevention, as well as special pedagogy at the University of Hradec Králové. He served as the General Director of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic from September 2010 to November 2012.
Former Czech Diplomat.
From 1962 to 1967, she studied Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. She further pursued her field during international stays in 1967 and 1979 at the Bourghiba Institute of Foreign Languages at the University of Tunis and in 1968 at the German University of Münster. In 1981, she passed her rigorous examination at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy (PhDr.).
Since 1991, she has worked for the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSFR), and later for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (MFA CR). Between 1991 and 1996, she served as chargé d'affaires for ČSFR and later for the Czech Republic in Iraq. From 1997 to 2002, she held the position of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Lebanon. Subsequently, she returned home for two years and from 2002 to 2004 served as the Director of the Department of the Middle East and North Africa at the MFA CR. Her third diplomatic mission was from 2004 to 2010 as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Turkey. In 2010, she became the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Czech Republic in the Syrian Arab Republic, where she served until the end of October 2023. Upon her departure, she received a Syrian state decoration from dictator Bashar al-Assad.
In 2016, she was awarded the Medal of Merit, First Class. In November 2023, she received the Order of Merit, Third Class, from the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic for significant contributions in the field of diplomacy and international security.
Become a diplomat in everyday life and learn public speaking!
It is not. Our mission is to educate a broad spectrum of students, from IT specialists to managers to creatively gifted individuals, third- and second-level students and state officials.
The main course delivers a requalification certificate, priority participation in DA-organised events and, among other things, many useful contacts.
The course runs on Saturdays and Sundays over nine weeks and roughly three and a half months.
The Diplomatic Academy offers courses custom-designed to meet the specific needs of your company. The requirements and goals of each company are unique – which is precisely why we aim to tailor each course to align with your expectations and ensure that the training benefits your employees as much as possible.
The tuition fee is CZK 35,000 for groups, regardless of the number of students.
Our mission is to educate a wide range of participants, from IT specialists and managers to creatively talented individuals, university and secondary school students, as well as civil servants.
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