Members of the Government

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Ivan Bartoš

Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation and Minister of Regional Development

Ivan Bartoš has been the leader of Česká pirátská strana (the Czech Pirate Party) for many years, and was one of its founders in 2009. He has been a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic since autumn 2017, and also defended his mandate in 2021. He spent four years in the Chamber as chair of the Committee on Public Administration and Regional Development; in addition to this, he has also been involved in fields such as digitisation.

Ivan Bartoš was born in Jablonec nad Nisou in North Bohemia. At the age of seventeen he went to study in the United States, where he passed his final examinations. He then also passed the Czech school-leaving examination at the U Balvanu Grammar School in his home town. When he was nineteen he started to study at two universities in Prague: theology at the Hussite Theological Faculty, and information and library studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. He eventually decided to focus more on information studies, in which he obtained a Ph.D. During his studies he returned once again to the United States, where he completed one semester at the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans.

His professional career has included several posts at Czech and multinational IT companies, such as Newton IT, Monster Worldwide, and T-Mobile; he also launched the employment portal Air Jobs.

He is married and has two children. He speaks fluent English, and can get by in French and Russian.

Personal Details

PhDr. Ivan Bartoš, Ph.D., born 20 March 1980

Education

2005–2015: Institute of Information and Library Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Information Science (awarded the title of Ph.D.)
2004: Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans, USA, winter semester
1999–2005: Institute of Information and Library Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Information Science (awarded the title of PhDr.)

Career and Public Service

since 2017: Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
2017–2021: Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Committee on Public Administration and Regional Development
2016–2017: DWH and BI Consultant, Physter Technology
2015–2016: Marketing Director, AirJobs.cz
2010–2014: Functionality Architect, T-Mobile
2009–2010: MIS Oracle Senior Analyst, MobilKom
2005–2010: Oracle Database Senior Engineer, Monster
2003–2005: Database Administrator and Designer, Newton Media