The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Ambassador Petr Kolar

 

"The Czech Republic"

Monday, 29th June 2009 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 p.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Friday, 26th June to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only
 

Ambassador Kolar was born September 27, 1962, in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. He received his degree in 1986 in Information Technology and Library Science, as well as Ethnography from the Charles University in Prague. He also studied at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, C.C. and the University of London Institute of Historical Research.

Ambassador Kolar began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in 1993 and remained there until he was appointed as the Czech Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Kingdom of Sweden in 1996. He then served as Adviser for European Integration and the Balkans to Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic. He began serving as the Czech Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Republic of Ireland in 1999, then became the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bilateral Relations in 2003.

From 1991 to 1993 he also worked as foreign policy editor and commentator as well as foreign affairs correspondent with a number of Czech dailies and magazines (Metropolitan, Telegraf, Lidová demokracie, Kosmopolitan 2000). During his academic career he initially concentrated on the National Revival period and has been focusing on contemporary history since 1989 (in particular the period from 1938 to 1948), present international conflicts and relations between small and large states. During his time as guest researcher at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, he participated in an international research project entitled "The Superpowers and International Systems". He was a lecturer (1999) at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University on the topic of European integration and the Balkan conflicts and published a number of specialized articles.

The Czech Republic Embassy in Washington, D.C.’s web site can be found at http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/index.html .