Josef Zieleniec

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1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech republic
Josef Zieleniec

Member of the European Parliament
In office 12 June 2004 – Incumbent
In office 1 January 1993 – 23 October 1997
Succeeded by	Jaroslav Šedivý

Born	April 4, 1946 (1946-28-04) (age 61) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Czech
Political party	SNK-ED, EPP-ED
Alma mater	VŠE
Profession	Economist , Politician

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Doc. Ing. Josef Zieleniec, CSc. (born on 28 May 1946 in Moscow) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament. From 2004, he has been a member of the SNK-ED. In the European Parliament, he is a member of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He was a member of KSČ - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia until 1990.

Josef Zieleniec spent the greater part of his professional career working as an economist. Prior to the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 he worked first in the Institute of Research in Engineering Technology and Economics Research, and later at the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science. Apart from research in microeconomic theory, he dealt with 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 discussions of economic reforms after 1989.

At the beginning of 1990 Josef Zieleniec founded The Center of Economic Research and Education,the first American-style economics Ph.D. program in Central and Eastern Europe, at the Charles University in Prague. He became it's first director, was also appointed senior lecturer in economics and was a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University.

[edit] Education

1974: Master's degree (University of Economics, Prague, Prague)
1986: holder of the postgraduate qualification 'Candidate of Sciences' (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague)
1991: senior lecturer (Charles University, Prague)