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Jozef Zieleniec

Josef Zieleniec
Member of the European Parliament
In office
12 June 2004 – 2009
1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
In office
1 January 1993 – 23 October 1997
Succeeded by Jaroslav Šedivý
Personal details
Born (1946-05-28) May 28, 1946 (age 71)
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Czech Republic Czech
Political party Public Affairs
Other political
affiliations
Civic Democratic Party (1992–2004)
SNK European Democrats (2004–9)
Alma mater VŠE
Profession Economist, Politician

Doc.Ing. Josef Zieleniec, CSc. (born 28 May 1946 in Moscow) is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament. From 2004, was a member of the SNK European Democrats (SNK-ED). In the European Parliament, he was a member of the European People's Party and served on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Zieleniec is currently a lecturer at the Prague academic center of New York University.

Zieleniec was born to Polish parents. He received his Master's degree in 1974 from the University of Economics, Prague, and in 1986 received a postgraduate Candidate of Science from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Zieleniec spent most of his professional career as an economist. From 1973 until the fall of the communist regime in 1989, he worked first as a research fellow in the Institute of Research in Engineering Technology and Economics Research, and later at the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Apart from research in microeconomic theory, he worked on the problems of economic transition from a centrally planned to market economy. The study "Czechoslovakia at the crossroads", based on his research, had a significant impact on the discussions about economic reforms after 1989.


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