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Jan Fischer
	Jan Fischer
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Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 8 May 2009
President	Václav Klaus
Preceded by	Mirek Topolánek
President of the European Council
	In office; 8 May 2009 – 30 June 2009
Prime Minister	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	Mirek Topolánek
Succeeded by	Fredrik Reinfeldt
President of the Czech Statistical Office
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 April 2003
Preceded by	Marie Bohatá
Born	2 January 1951 (age 59); Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Political party	Independent (1989 – present)
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1980 – 1989)
Spouse(s)	Dana Fischerová
Alma mater	University of Economics, Prague
Religion	Judaism

Jan Fischer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈfɪʃɛr]) (born 2 January 1951) is the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and since 2003 has been the president of the Czech Statistical Office.^[1]

[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life and education

Jan Fischer was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia into a family of mathematicians. His father was a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences, specialized in mathematical and statistical applications in genetics, selective growing and medicine.^[1] His mother was a statistician. Jan Fischer is Jewish.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He graduated from the University of Economics, Prague in 1974 in statistics and econometrics. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Economics in 1985, earning his Candidate of Sciences degree in the field of economic statistics. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1980 till the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989.

Jan Fischer is married for the second time and has 3 children. His son Jakub, a statistician, is an Associate Professor and Subdean at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics, Prague.

[edit] Career

Immediately after graduation, he joined the Federal Statistical Office. In 1990 he became its vice-chairman and held this position until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Since the beginning of the 1990s he has led the team handling results of parliamentary and local elections. He also served as vice-chairman of the newly established Czech Statistical Office. In 2001 he participated in the mission of the IMF research, whose purpose was to explore possibilities of establishing a statistical office in East Timor. In September 2000, he became Production Director of Taylor Nelson Sofres Factum. From March 2002 to April 2003 he worked as chief of research institutes at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics in Prague. He was appointed president of the Czech Statistical Office on 24 April 2003.

He is a member of the Czech Statistical Society, the International Statistical Institute, the Scientific Council and Board of Trustees and a Scientific Board of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.

[edit] Prime Minister

After the collapse of Mirek Topolánek's Government in March 2009, Fischer was proposed to be the next Prime Minister until next elections.^[5] He constituted his Government on 8 May 2009.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Jan Fischer - President of the CZSO
^ (Czech) Manžel tak nevypadá, ale je vtipný, říká žena nového premiéra
^ (Czech) Král, R.:Jan Fischer: Komunista, který slaví chanuku
^ (Czech) Synovi premiéra hrozí nebezpečí, policie hlídá i rodinu ministra vnitra
^ Outgoing cabinet and opposition agree on new PM

[edit] External links

Jan Fischer - President of the CZSO official CV

Political offices
Preceded by Mirek Topolánek	Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 2009–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Mirek Topolánek	President of the European Council 2009	Succeeded by Fredrik Reinfeldt

[Jan_Fischer_-_President_of_the_CZSO-0] Jan Fischer - President of the CZSO

[1] (Czech) Manžel tak nevypadá, ale je vtipný, říká žena nového premiéra

[2] (Czech) Král, R.:Jan Fischer: Komunista, který slaví chanuku

[3] (Czech) Synovi premiéra hrozí nebezpečí, policie hlídá i rodinu ministra vnitra

[4] Outgoing cabinet and opposition agree on new PM

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