Jan Koukal


Jan Koukal is a Czech politician.
After studying theoretical physics at the Charles University in Prague Koukal worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, specialising on surface physics.
Jan Koukal has been a member of the Civic Democratic Party. From 1993 to 1998 he was mayor of Prague and from 1996 to 1998 member of Senate of the Czech Republic. In 2006, after a few months of training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was named ambassador of the Czech Republic in Austria.