Ivan Pilip
Ivan Pilip (born August 4, 1963 in Prague ) is a Czech economist, politician and multiple minister; from 2004 to 2007 he was Deputy President of the European Investment Bank .
Political career
Pilip received his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Economics in Prague , where he worked as an assistant. He also took a postgraduate degree in the Faculty of Economics of the Complutense University in Madrid. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989 he was briefly a member of the Občanské fórum citizens 'forum , from 1993–1996 he was chairman of the Christian democratic party Křesťanskodemokratická strana , which merged in 1996 with the Citizens' Democratic Party Občanská democická strana (ODS) and joined the Pilip from 1996–1997 was deputy chairman. For the ODS, he was also elected to the Parliament of the Czech Republic. At the end of 1997 he parted with some other politicians like Jan Ruml from the ODS and founded the democratic union Unie svobody - Demokratická unie (US-DEU), of which he was deputy chairman from 2001-2003; for this party he returned to parliament from 1998, where he remained a member of parliament until 2002.
From 1994 to 1998 Pilip was Minister of Education and Youth in the Václav Klaus I Government and Václav Klaus II Government (where he moved to the Ministry of Finance on June 2, 1997 as Minister and became Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister of Finance in the Josef Tošovský government . From 2004 to 2007 he was Deputy President of the European Investment Bank.
In 2001, while still a member of parliament, he was arrested together with the student movement activist Jan Bubeník in Cuba because he was looking for contacts with dissidents, which earned him the nickname “Fidel's prisoner”. The then chairman of the Senate, Petr Pithart , personally campaigned for his release .
After 2000, Pilip worked as a leading employee, general manager and member of the supervisory board of various larger companies.
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- Životopisy ministrů (ministers' résumés ), server of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, online at: Životopisy ministrů ( memento from September 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Ivan Pilip new Vice President at the EIB (European Investment Bank CV), online at: www.eib.org/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dvanáctý den tráví Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubeník v kubánském vězení , report of the Czech broadcasting company Český rozhlas from January 24, 2001, online at: www.radio.cz/cz/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pilip, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech economist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |