RNDr. Libor Ambrozek

Born on 2 August 1966 in Hodonín, where he attended the local Gymnasium. He studied systematic biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague, between 1984 and 1989. On graduating, he worked as a scientist at the Masaryk Museum in Hodonín, In 1991, he took up a job with the environmental department of Hodonín District Office, where he worked in nature conservation. In 1990, Mr Ambrozek joined the KDU-ČSL Party. In June 1992, he was elected executive the vice-chairman of the KDU-ČSL Moravian-Silesian Provincial Organization. He held this post until the reorganization of the party in the autumn of 1995, when he became vice-chairman of the KDU-ČSL South Moravia Regional Organization. In 1996, he went on a work placement at the Ministry of the Environment. In the June 1996 elections, Mr Ambrozek was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, in the scope of which he became a member of the Agricultural Committee in 1996 - 1998. From 1996, he was also a member of the Committee for Public Administration, Regional Development and the Environment; he was repeatedly elected the chairman of the Sub-Committee for the Protection of the Environment and Landscape. In 1996, he became a member and in 1998 Chairman of the Council of the State Environment Fund. In the shadow cabinet of the Coalition of Four, he was put in charge of the environment. He presides over the KDU-ČSL’s ecological expert commission. It was for this party that he was re-elected an MP in the June 2002 general election. He takes an active part in the spheres of nature conservation and environmental protection. He holds a number of unpaid posts in non-profit environmentalist organizations. He was the chairman of the Czech Conservationist Union, the biggest NGO active in this field. He was the Minister of the Environment in Vladímír Špidla’s government between 15 July 2002 and 4 August 2004. Mr Ambrozek is married, the father of one daughter.