Lubomír Voleník
President of the Supreme Audit Office (1993–2003)
Born: March 1st, 1950
Died: June 5th, 2003
His family was forced to move to the town of Teplice, where Voleník finished his high school education. He drew invalidity pension after a serious rheumatic disease. Voleník graduated from Charles University in Prague, where he studied at Faculty of Law, and became a company lawyer in 1983.
In the end of 1980´s, Voleník engaged in the underground environmental movement. In 1990, he became a member of the Civic Forum of the Czech Republic and was elected a deputy to the Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, where he served as a secretary of the Environmental Committee and chaired the Mandate and Immunity Committee. After the Civic Forum´s transformation, Voleník became a member of the Civic Democratic Party. In 1992, he was re-elected to the Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly and worked in the Committee for Fundamental Law and vice-chaired the Mandate and Immunity Committee.
From 1993 to 2003, Voleník served as the president of the Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic. (On October 17, 2002, Voleník was appointed the president of the SAO for his second nine-year long term.) From 1996 to 1999, he held the position of the president of EUROSAI.
Lubomír Voleník suddenly died during a business trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 5, 2003.