President of the SAO

Miloslav Kala

Mr Miloslav Kala

born: 3 August 1963

miloslav.kala (at) nku.cz


Education and Courses

  • 2001 EU Structural Funds
  • 2000 Marketing
  • 1999 Controlling, Crisis Management
  • 1982 – 1988 Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Instrumental, regulatory and automating technology

Professional Experience

  • 2013 – present President of the Supreme Audit Office
  • 2021 – 2024 President of EUROSAI
  • 2017 – 2021 First Vice-President of EUROSAI
  • 2008 – 2013 Vice-President of the Supreme Audit Office
  • 2004 – 2007 Member of the Advisory Committee of the Czech Consolidation Agency
  • 2003 – 2004 Member of the Managing Board of the Railway Infrastructure Administration
  • 2002 – 2008 Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (chairman of the Mandate and Immunity Committee; member of the Committee on Economic Affairs)
  • 2000 – 2002 Mayor of Blansko
  • 1996 – 2000 Entrepreneur - economy and organizational consultant
  • 1988 – 1996 Adamov Machine Works, a.s. ADAMOV – Design Engineer, Research and Development Manager, ADAST-SYSTEMS, a.s. Adamov – Managing Director and Member of the Board

Achievements

  • 2019 - State Medal of the President of the Czech Republic – Medal of Merit for service to the Republic in the area of the economy

Expertise

  • 2018 – present Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics, Prague
  • 2018 – present Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics, Prague
  • Support for opening public administration data in the Czech Republic: 2017, 2018, 2019 – Launching annual Hackathon of the public administration
  • 2002 – 2010 external lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno

International Activities

Support of information exchange and cooperation between supreme audit institutions:

  • BIEP (Benchmarking Information Exchange Project) – project of cooperation among supreme audit institutions allowing comparison of data between individual states/SAIs
  • New tools in EUROSAI organisation: Database of audits, products and training events
  • March 2020, Prague: First International Hackathon of SAIs

Contributions at international conferences, for example:

  • April 2021, Prague: Moderator of XI EUROSAI e-Congress
  • May 2018, Krakow: Presentation at Jagiellonian University "Role and importance of SAIs in civil societies and in states ruled by law"
  • May 2018, Sofia: Conference "The role of the Supreme Audit Institutions in enhancing accountability, transparency and integrity in the public sector"
  • May 2015, Prague: Conference "eDATA – Future of audit"
  • March 2015, Budapest: Conference "Transparency and Integrity in the public sector"

Publications

  • Co-author of the commented issue of the Act on the Supreme Audit Office (2017)
  • Author of book "90% ANGRY DEMOCRACY" (2005)
  • Whole range of articles published in professional and daily Czech press

Personal information

  • Marital status: married
  • Children: one daughter, two sons

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