Jakub Landovský (born 5 September 1976) is a Czech politician, lawyer, and university lecturer, who served as the Czech ambassador to NATO (2019-2024) and Deputy Minister of Defense (2015-2019). He was a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 2006 to 2024.
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Early life and education
Jakub Landovský was born in Prague on 5 September 1976.
From 1996 to 2003, he studied for a bachelor's and subsequently a master's degree at the Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. He completed his doctoral studies at the same faculty from 2003 to 2011, and passed the state exam in 2009. From 1999 to 2007 he attended the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, graduating with a master's degree.
Since 2014 he has been lecturing at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University.
Career
In 2000, Landovský started working at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an assistant to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the former Yugoslavia Jiří Dienstbier. From 2002 until 2005, he was an assistant ambassador with a special mission. From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a researcher at Oregon State University in the United States, and was briefly a consultant to the United Nations Development Program. From 2007 to 2010, he advised the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, preparing analysis and background materials.