President of the SAO
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