Curriculum vitae

Personal information

• Surname/First name: DIENSTBIER Jiri
• Address: Apolinarska 6, Prague 2, 128 00, Czech Republic
• Telephone (Mobile): 00420 - 603 888 247
• Fax: 00420 - 221610108
• E-mail: j@dienstbier.cz
• Nationality: Czech
• Date of birth: April 20, 1937

Occupation or position held (from 2004 onwards)

• Ambassador with a special mission
• Trustee and Director of the Reuters Founders Share Company
• Visiting Professor at the University of International and Public Relations
• Visiting Professor at the Charles University in Prague
• Chairman of the Czech Council on Foreign Relations
• Journalist
• Writer
• 2003 - Visiting Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island
• 1999 - Visiting Professor, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• 1998-2001 - Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia
• 1997-1998 - Claremont Graduate University, California, Visiting Professor
• 1994-2000 - Personal representative of the President in the Group of 16 heads of states for multilateral cooperation and reform of the United Nations

from 1994 onwards

• from 2008 - Senator, Chairman of the Comitee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security
• Founder and Chairman of the Czech Council on Foreign Relations
• 1992-2000 - Member of the Commission on Global Governance
• 1989-1992 - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
• 1989 - November/ December - Spokesman of Civic Forum Coordinating Center
• 1988 - Member of International Press Institute
• 1979, 1985 - Spokesman of the Charter 77
• 1979-1982 - in prison
• 1970-1989 - After 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia worked as archivist, night watchman and stoker
• 1958-1969 - Radio Prague commentator, correspondent in the Far East, Europe and USA

Education and training

• 1993 - Doctor honoris causa, University of Burgundy, France
• 1960 - M.A. degree, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague

Books:

• 1967 - Indonesia - from Sukarno to Suharto, Prague
• 1988 - Radio against the Tanks (on civil defense against the Soviet occupation), Index in Germany, 1990 Prague
• 1986 - Dreaming of Europe (1986 in samizdat, 1990 Lidové noviny, Prague; in German: Träumen von Europa, Rohwolt 1991)
• 1999 - From Dreams to Reality (Memoirs 1989-1992 ten years later), Lidové noviny, Prague
• 2002 - Tax on Blood (on Balkans events), Lidové noviny, Prague

Czech Awards:

• For Merits I. Grade T.G.Masaryk Medal

Foreign Awards:

• La Legion d´honneur
• Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband
• PRO MERITO of the Council of Europe
• Maltese Cross, Korean Diplomatic Order
• Berlin Bär Kultur Preis
• Medal of the President of Italian Republic

• World Press Freedom Hero (IPI Congress, Boston 2000)