Speaker

Ondřej Kundra is deputy editor-in-chief at Respekt magazine. He has worked with Respekt since 1999 and has been a permanent member of the editorial board since 2002. He focuses on the influence of foreign powers in Europe and the Czech Republic, especially Russia and China, and on Czech politics and justice. He has won several Journalism Awards and the Ferdinand Peroutka Award for his investigative texts and reports. He is the author of books about the patron of the arts Meda Mládková – My Wonderful Life; on the work of the Russian secret services, Putin’s Agents; on European jihadists, My Son the Terrorist. How European Jihadists are Born (with Tomas Lindner); on the story of the most famous Holocaust photograph of Czechoslovak Jews, Vendulka. Escape to Freedom; and on the murders of Putin’s critics, Novichok or Bullet.