Pavel Mertlík

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Pavel Mertlík (2000)

Pavel Mertlík (born May 7, 1961 in Havlíčkův Brod ) is a Czech economist and politician . Between 1999 and 2001 he was Minister of Finance in the Miloš Zeman government .

Life

Mertlík graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Economics in Prague . After graduating in 1983, he held a position as an assistant there until 1989. He subsequently worked for the Czech National Bank and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague, among others .

Mertlík, who was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s , became Deputy Prime Minister for the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) with responsibility for economic issues in the government of Miloš Zeman on July 22, 1998 . After Ivo Svoboda was recalled, Mertlík also took over the post of Finance Minister on July 21, 1999. On April 12, 2001, he resigned from his positions due to substantive differences with Zeman and other government colleagues.

Subsequently, Mertlík worked as an economist at Raiffeisenbank until 2012 . From 2014 to 2017 he was an advisor to Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka . Mertlík has been the rector of the private business school Škoda Auto Vysoká škola since 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Pavel Mertlík  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Finance Minister Pavel Mertlík ranges resignation - Český rozhlas , 10 April 2001
  2. ^ Advisor to Prime Minister Sobotka - Czech Government, March 13, 2014