Speaker

In October 1999, Martin Dvořák went to Kosovo for two and a half years as a member of the UN mission for post-war reconstruction. Subsequently, in 2003 he moved to Iraq, where he worked on the establishment of temporary local governments in the provinces in the south of the country. He later worked in the administrative team of the Council for International Coordination in Baghdad, where he later became Deputy Director of the Department for Donor Coordination.

After returning from Iraq, he started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As an observer of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, he went to Ukraine in autumn 2004 to monitor the course of the presidential elections during the so-called Orange Revolution. In January 2005, he was sent to our embassy in Washington as an employee of the commercial and economic section, and after two years, he became its head. After returning to the Czech Republic in 2009, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the director of the department of bilateral economic relations and export support. He remained in this position until August 2012, when he went to the USA again, this time as consul general at the consulate in New York.

From there, he moved to Kuwait as ambassador in 2017, where he was in charge of Kuwait and Qatar. From June 2021, he worked in Prague as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In May 2023, he became Minister for European Affairs.