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finance minister of the czech republic economist václav klaus 3 june 1997 2nd ivan pilip.jpg ivan pilip
 22 july 1998 ivan pilip
ivan pilip

ivan pilip -lrb- born 4 august 1963 in prague -rrb- is a czech politician and economist who was finance minister from june 1997 to july 1998 , after having been the minister of education , youth and sport from 1994 to 1997 .
pilip was educated as an economist , before entering politics in the christian democratic party -lrb- kds -rrb- after the fall of communism in the czech republic .
pilip served in government from 1992 to 1998 , leading the kds before it merged with the civic democratic party .
pilip was among the deputies who split from the civic democrats to form the freedom union and in 1998 he went into opposition .
pilip was detained in cuba in early 2001 for almost a month after meeting opponents of the cuban government , before being released after international pressure on cuba .
he lost his seat in the chamber of deputies in 2002 , but would serve as interim leader of freedom union for a period afterwards , before serving as a vice-president at the european investment bank from 2004 to 2007 .
