What was the position of Jan Mládek in Oct 2013?
Jan Mládek Jan Mládek ( born June 1 , 1960 ) is a Czech economist and Social Democratic politician who served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2014 to 2017 . Between 2005 and 2006 Mládek also was Minister of Agriculture in Paroubeks cabinet . He also served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies . Mládek graduated from University of Economics in Prague in 1983 . Then in the years 1985–1990 he studied at Forecasting Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences , where in April 1990 he received the title of Candidate of Sciences . Moreover , he studied for two years ( 1987–1989 ) Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague . He is married and has five children . In 1991 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Economics at Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University . In the years 1991–1992 he worked in the position of advisor to the Federal Minister of Economics and later as his Deputy Minister . In the period 1992–1995 Mládek worked as an external advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade . In 1993–1998 he cooperated with the Central European University in Prague / Budapest in the study of transformation and privatization of the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe . In the period 1998–1999 he served as Deputy Vice Prime Minister for Economic Policy and from 1999 to May 2001 he was the First Deputy Minister of Finance . In 1999–2001 he was Vice-Governor of the International Monetary Fund for the Czech Republic . In the 2002 elections Mládek was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Social Democrats . He was a member of the Budget Committee and in 2002–2004 also the Foreign Committee . He remained in the Chamber of Deputies until December 2005 , when he resigned mandate . In 2004–2005 , he worked as an economic advisor to the Prime Minister and subsequently became a member of the Cabinet directly . In November 2005 he was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture in the Paroubeks government . At the post he remained until the end of the term of government , until August 2006 . In the Czech Social Democratic Party he is active as Chairman of the partys Economic Policy Committee . He hold the post of partys shadow finance minister . In 2001 he requested that the National Security Agency carry out a “classified” level screening but it refused to grant a screening at that level ( he only acquired the lowest ranking of “restricted” ) . In January 2014 he was the ČSSD candidate for the post of Minister of Industry and Trade in the Government of Bohuslav Sobotka . On 29 January 2014 he was appointed to this position . He has been active in the ČSSD as President of the party’s National Economic Commission . During the period from 2008–2009 he was Director of . In October 2006 he was again appointed Director of the Czech Institute of Applied Economics . Until the start of the year 2014 he was Chairman of FONTES RERUM , a cooperative for economic , political and social studies . Jan Mladek speaks fluent English , Russian and Polish . Bibliography ( selection ) . - Mládek , J . ( 1987 ) : Shortage – the Barrier of Modeling Consumption in Centrally Planned Economy . Ekonomicko-matematický obzor 23 , ISSN 0013-3027 , nr . 2 , pages 156 - 170 - Mládek , J . ( 1989 ) : Selected Problems of Modeling Consumption in a CPE : the Case of Czechoslovakia 1955–1986 . Jahrbuch der Wirtschaft Osteuropas 13 , nr . 2 , Munich , pages 195 - 205 - Mládek , J . ( 1993 ) : The Different Paths of Privatization ( Czechoslovakia 1990 - ? ) in : Earle , J. ; Frydman , R. ; Rapacyznski , A . ( eds. ) : Privatization in the Transition to a Market Economy ; Pinter Publishers , London , United Kingdom , 1993 , pages 121 - 146 - Hashi I. , Mládek , J . ( 1993 ) : Voucher Privatization , Investment Funds and Corporate Governance in Czechoslovakia , British Review of Economic Issues 15 , nr . 37 , October 1993 , pages 67 – 96 - Mládek , J . ( 1994 ) : Voucher Privatization in the Czech Republic and Slovakia , in : Mass Privatization – An Initial Assessment , OECD , Paris , 1994 - Mládek , J . ( 1994 ) : Czech Privatization Process : Time for Corporate Governance , Forschungsbericht 9410 , Ludwig Boltzmann Institute , Germany , 18 pages - Dlouhý , V. , Mládek , J . ( 1994 ) : Privatization and Corporate Control in the Czech Republic , Economic Policy , Lundy , December 1994 , pages 155 - 170 - Mládek , J . ( 1997 ) : Is Czech Voucher Privatization a Success ? Transitions , pages 92 – 95 - Mejstřík , M. , Mládek , J . ( 1997 ) : The Privatization Process in East-Central Europe – Evolutionary Process . Kluwer Academic Publishers , USA - Hashi , I. , Mládek , J . ( 2000 ) : Fiscal and Regulatory Impediments to the Entry of New Firms in Five TR , Journal of East-West Business , Haworth Press , Binghamton NY , USA , pages 59 – 94 - Mládek , J . ( 2001 ) : Hospodářský růst a veřejné rozpočty ( Economic growth and public budgets ) , Trend no . 3 , Volume 8 , July 2001 - Mládek , J . ( 2001 ) : Národní kapitalismus v Čechách a co sním dál ? ( National capitalism in the Czech Republic and what am I dreaming of now? ) Respekt , 10 . 9 . 2001 - Mládek , J . ( 2002 ) : Kupónová privatizace : politický úspěch , ekonomické selhání ( Coupon privatisation : political success , economic failure ) , Symposium of the Centre for Economics and Politics - Mládek , J . ( 2003 ) : Kdo neodjel , volil komunisty ( If they did not leave , they voted Communist ) , Respekt 28 . 1 . 2003 , p . 8 - Mládek , J . ( 2003 ) : Kousnutí do kyselého jablka ( Grasping the nettle ) , Literární noviny , July 2003 - Mládek , J . ( 2003 ) : Reforma veřejných financí : těžká zkouška pro ČSSD ( Public finance reform : tough test for the ČSSD ) , Trend no . 5 , Volume 10 October 2003 , p . 9 - Mládek , J . ( 2004 ) : Nalejme si čistého vína aneb o hospodářské politice ČR v 21 . století ( Coming clean , or the economic policy of the Czech Republic in the 21st century ) , Trend no . 4 , Volume 11 , page 3 - Mládek , J . ( 2005 ) : Rovná daň – pohled domácí – český ( Equal taxation – a domestic view – Czech ) , Právo , 21 . 5 . 2005 , page 23 - Mládek , J . ( 2006 ) : Budoucnost českého venkova je EAFRD ( The future of the Czech countryside lies with the EAFRD ) , Právo , 31 . 1 . 2006 , page 13 - Mládek , J . ( 2007 ) : Přijměme euro už v roce 2012 ( We will adopt the euro as early as 2012 ) , Hospodářské noviny 22 . 2 . 2007