Mladek, Jan

He studied in elementary school in Drachov ( Czech. Dráchov ) and in Veselí nad Lužnicí ( Czech. Veselí nad Lužnicí ). He graduated from high school in 1979 in Sobeslav .

In 1979-1983 he studied at the Prague University of Economics ^[2] . Military service took place in 1983-1984 in the 91st pontoon regiment in Litomerice . In 1987-1989 he studied at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Charles University ^[2] , and in April 1990 he completed graduate studies at the Institute for Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Czech Prognostický ústav ), which was then led by Professor Valtr Komárek ( Czech Valtr Komárek ) In 1993-1998, Mladek collaborated with the Central European University in Prague / Budapest in the study of transformations and privatization in the post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. He has published a number of professional publications in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Twice served as deputy minister: for the first time in 1991-1992 in the Federal Ministry of Economics of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic, and the second time in the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic (in 1999-2001). From 2005 to 2006, Jan Mladek was Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). As Deputy Minister of Finance, he represented the Czech Republic at the International Monetary Fund in Washington . From June 2002 to December 2005 he was a deputy of the Czech Parliament from the Czech Social Democratic Party, representing the Tábor and Český Krumlov districts. In the Czech Social Democratic Party, Jan Mladek works primarily as chairman of the National Economic Commission for the Social Democratic Party and shadow minister of finance of the Social Democratic Party. In addition, in the period 2008-2009, he served as director of the Masaryk Academy of Labor, that is, an institution freely associated with the party of the Social Democratic Party. Jan Mladek has been a member of CSDP since 1995. Before that, he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) between 1987-1989. In the first half of 2009, he, as chairman of the board of the civil association Law, Solidarity and Information (Právo, solidarita a informace), was the publisher of Literaturnaya gazeta ( Czech Literární noviny ) ^[3] . He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Česká pošta State Enterprise.

He holds the post of chairman of the national economic commission in ChSDP. In the period 2008-2009 was the director of the Democratic Academy. Masaryk. In October 2006, he again became director of the Czech Institute of Practical Economics. He was chairman of FONTES RERUM, an association to study economic, political and social sciences. He served as Shadow Minister of Finance of the CSDP. ^[2]

In January 2014, he became a candidate for the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) as Minister of Industry and Trade in the government of Bohuslav Sobotka . ^[4] . January 29, 2014 was appointed to this position.

Mladek supported the actions of Vladimir Putin towards Ukraine contrary to the official position of the Czech government ^[5] .

Mladek supports the idea of ​​building new units of the Dukovany NPP . ^[6]

Personal life

Jan Mladek speaks English, Russian and Polish ^[2] . He is married (his wife's name is Maria) and has five children. ^[one]

• 1979–1983 - Prague University of Economics
• 1986–1989 - Charles University ( Prague )
• 1990 - University of Namur ( French Université de Namur )

Qualification obtained: engineer-economist, candidate of sciences.

• Czech Economic Society (Česká ekonomická společnost)
• Fontes Roerum, an association for economic, political and social research. Until February 15, 2014 he was the chairman.

• Mládek, J. (1987): Shortage - the Barrier of Modeling Consumption in Centrally Planned Economy. Ekonomicko-matematický obzor 23, ISSN 0013-3027, No. 2, pages 156 - 170
• Mládek, J. (1989): Selected Problems of Modeling Consumption in a CPE: the Case of Czechoslovakia 1955–1986. Jahrbuch der Wirtschaft Osteuropas 13, No. 2, Munich, pages 195 - 205
• Mládek, J. (1993): The Different Paths of Privatization (Czechoslovakia 1990 -?) In: Earle, J .; Frydman, R .; Rapacyznski, A. (eds.): Privatization in the Transition to a Market Economy; Pinter Publishers, London, United Kingdom, 1993, pages 121 to 146
• Hashi I., Mládek, J. (1993): Voucher Privatization, Investment Funds and Corporate Governance in Czechoslovakia, British Review of Economic Issues 15, No. 37, October 1993, pages 67 - 96
• Mládek, J. (1994): Voucher Privatization in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in: Mass Privatization - An Initial Assessment, OECD, Paris, 1994
• Mládek, J. (1994): Czech Privatization Process: Time for Corporate Governance, Forschungsbericht 9410, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Germany, 18 pp.
• Dlouhý, V., Mládek, J. (1994): Privatization and Corporate Control in the Czech Republic, Economic Policy, Lundy, December 1994, pp. 155-170
• Mládek, J. (1997): Is Czech Voucher Privatization a Success? Transitions, pp. 92 - 95
• Mejstřík, M., Mládek, J. (1997): The Privatization Process in East-Central Europe - Evolutionary Process. Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA
• Hashi, I., Mládek, J. (2000): Fiscal and Regulatory Impediments to the Entry of New Firms in Five TR. Journal of East-West Business, HaworthPress, Binghamton NY, USA, pp. 59–94
• Mládek, J. (2001): Hospodářský růst a veřejné rozpočty (Economic Growth and Public Finance), Trend No. 3, Year 8, July 2001
• Mládek, J. (2001): Národní kapitalismus v Čechách a co sním dál? (National capitalism in the Czech Republic and what will replace it?), Respekt, 10. 9. 2001
• Mládek, J. (2002): Kupónová privatizace: politický úspěch, ekonomické selhání (Voucherization: political success, economic error), collection of the Center for Politics and Economics
• Mládek, J. (2003): Kdo neodjel, volil komunisty (Who did not leave, voted for the Communists), Respekt 28.1.1.2003, p. 8
• Mládek, J. (2003): Kousnutí do kyselého jablka (Grab the bull by the horns), Literární noviny, July 2003
• Mládek, J. (2003): Reforma veřejných financí: těžká zkouška pro ČSSD (Public Finance Reform: A Serious Check for the Czech Social Democratic Party), Trend No. 5, Year 10, October 2003, p. 9
• Mládek, J. (2004): Nalejme si čistého vína aneb o hospodářské politice ČR v 21. století (Let's be frank or about the economic policies of the Czech Republic in the 21st century), Trend No. 4, year 11, page 3
• Mládek, J. (2005): Rovná daň - pohled domácí - český (Single tax - domestic point of view - Czech), Právo, 21. 5. 2005, page 23
• Mládek, J. (2006): Budoucnost českého venkova je EAFRD (The future of the Czech village is in the ECCFSR), Právo, 31. 1. 2006, page 13
• Mládek, J. (2007): Přijměme euro už v roce 2012 (Let's switch to the euro already in 2012), Hospodářské noviny 22. 2.2.2007

• Site of Jan Mladeka