Tomáš Prouza (born April 30, 1973) is a Czech economist, former Deputy

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(2004–2007) and from January 2014 to March 2017 State Secretary for European Affairs at the

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's Office. In May 2016 the Government appointed Tomáš Prouza as the coordinator for the digital agenda. His main task was to synchronize and manage all governmental activities and communication for support of the digital economy and digitalization of public administration among the ministries and other central governmental institutions. He resigned his government positions on 31 March 2017 and went to establish his own consulting company EU Politics Advisory. On October 1, 2018 he has become President of the Confederation of Trade and Tourism of the Czech Republic.

Career

Between 2012 and 2014, he worked at the

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as an expert on consumer protection in financial services. After leaving the Ministry of Finance in 2007, he co-founded Partners Financial Services, a financial distribution company, where he acted as the member of the board responsible for compliance and customer care. He also served between 2009 and 2012 as the chairman of the board of Prague Philharmonia, founded in 1994 by Czech conductor

Jiří Bělohlávek Jiří Bělohlávek, (; 24 February 1946 – 31 May 2017) was a Czech conductor. He was a leading interpreter of Czech classical music, and became chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990, a role he would serve on two occasio ...

. When serving as the deputy finance minister between 2004 and 2007, he was responsible for financial services, EU and international relations, fiscal policy and euro adoption. Between November 2005 and December 2006 he was the first National Coordinator for Euro Introduction in the Czech Republic. He also represented the Czech Republic in the Ecofin Council, Economic and Finance Committee and Financial Services Committee of the

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and served as the Deputy Governor of the

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for the

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. He started his career as economic journalist, first in the Czech-English monthly The Prague Tribune where he was responsible for Czech editing and financial section of the magazine, and then between 2000 and 2004 as the founder and CEO of the personal finance website www.penize.cz. Prouza graduated from the

University of Economics in Prague The Prague University of Economics and Business (PUEB) (originally: ''the University of Economics, Prague''; '' cs, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, VŠE'') is a triple crown accredited economics and business-oriented public university loc ...

(majoring in international politics and diplomacy) and received his MBA from the

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Awards and honours

In 2016, Tomáš Prouza was awarded the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prouza, Tomas Living people 20th-century Czech economists 1973 births Czech Social Democratic Party Government ministers Politicians from Ostrava Prague University of Economics and Business alumni 21st-century Czech economists