The Ambassador of the Czech Republic accredited to Malta is H.E. Jan Kohout. who presented his credentials to H.E. The President of the Republic of Malta, Dr George Vella, on the 27th June 2023.

Born 29 March 1961, he is a Czech diplomat and politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in the caretaker governments of Jan Fischer and Jiří Rusnok.

After the Velvet revolution, he entered the Czechoslovak and later Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as Ambassador to the EU in Brussels as well as Deputy Foreign Minister. After Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla resigned in 2004, Kohout was offered the post of Premier but had refused.

Kohout is a graduate in Literature and Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. He is divorced and has two children.

Ambassador Kohout speaks Czech, English, French and Russian.

Education:

10/1979 – 9/1984 - Charles University Prague, Faculty of Arts

Professional career:

10/1984 – 5/1990 - Institute of International Relations Prague

5/1990 – 5/1995 - Director, Dept. for UN and other International Organizations, MFA

5/1995 – 1/2000 - Deputy Head, Permanent Mission to the UN, Vienna

1/2000 – 12/2001 - Deputy Director, EU and Western Europe Department, European Correspondent, Political Director, MFA

1/2002 – 4/2004 - Deputy Minister, State Secretary for European Affairs, MFA 4/2004 – 1/2008 - Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the EU, Ambassador, Brussels

1/2008 – 5/2009 - Deputy Minister, MFA of the Czech Republic

5/2009 – 7/2010 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

10/2010 – 7/2013 - Supervisory Board, ČEZ

7/2013 – 1/2014 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

2/2014 – 7/2019 - Consultancy for Czech Regions, New Silk Road Institute,

6/2019 – 5/2021 - Deputy Minister, Ministry of Justice

5/2021 – 11/2021 - Deputy Minister, MFA of the Czech Republic

1/2023 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Republic

6/2023 - non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Malta