Director General for Defence Policy and Strategy at the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic
Mr. Jiří Šedivý
- 1995-1999:
Ph.D., Political Science, Charles University Prague - 1993-1994:
M.A., War Studies, King’s College London - 1990-1993:
Public Exam (B.A. level), Political Science, Charles University Prague
- 2025-:
Director General of the Defence Policy and Strategy Division - 2020-2025:
Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency - 2019-2020:
Special representative for resilience and new threats, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 2012-2019:
Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to NATO - 2010-2012:
Deputy Defence Minister - 2007-2010: NATO
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning - 2007:
Deputy Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic - 2006-2007:
Defence Minister of the Czech Republic - 2004-2006:
Professor of Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies - 1999-2004:
During this period Mr Šedivý was Director of the Institute of International Relations (Prague); Assistant Professor of International Relations at Charles University (Prague); and Professor of European Security at New York University (Prague). As an expert, he played an important role in the Czech Republic’s accession to NATO. It was during this period that he also served as external adviser to President Václav Havel.