Pavel Svoboda
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Our vision is a prosperous Czech Republic in the long term.
We see the key to prosperity in a free, value-cultivated and creative citizen. We see the path to prosperity in the development of democracy and in the active involvement of Czechs, Moravians and Silesians in the life of the European Union.
Part of our vision is a strong, secure and economically competitive Europe. A Europe that, in an integrated ecology, protects the environment and promotes global care for planet Earth, our common home.
Institute for Christian Democratic Politics (abbreviated as „IKDP“ according to its Czech name „Institut pro křesťansko-demokratickou politiku“) is the think-tank of the Czech People’s Party named KDU-ČSL.
Our goal is to reflect on and modernly interpret the values on which European society has grown up, to bring new impulses to the public debate from the point of view of Christian-democratic politics, to be an important platform for cooperation between centre-right partners and experts, to help defend the democratic society against authoritarian tendencies and extremism, to arouse young people’s interest in public affairs and to motivate them to enter politics.
Board of Directors
Marian Jurečka
Chairman of KDU-ČSL, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Šárka Jelínková
First Vice-Chairwoman of KDU-ČSL, Chairwoman of the KDU-ČSL Group in the Senate
Jan Bartošek
Vice-Chairman of the KDU-ČSL,, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies
Petr Hladík
Vice-Chairman of KDU-ČSL, First Deputy Mayor of the City of Brno
Pavel Hořava
Secretary-General of KDU-ČSL
Marek Orko Vácha
Academic, Roman Catholic Priest
International Council
Georg Milbradt
former Minister-President of Saxony
Petr Pithart
political scientist, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, former President of the Senate, signatory of Charter 77
Jerzy Buzek
Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Poland, former President of the European Parliament
Iveta Radičová
Academic, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
Executive team
Eva Lejsalová
Project manager
Jan Šmídek
Director
Fay Frydrýnová
Project Manager
External staff
Marián Sekerák
Research Fellow