Milan Ekert

Milan Ekert (born 2 March 1965) is a Czech former politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic for the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from 1996 to 2006. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Belarus, and from 2018 to 2022, he held the same position in Azerbaijan.

Milan Ekert
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 May 2004 – 19 July 2004
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
In office 1 June 1996 – 15 June 2006
Representative of the town of Klatovy
In office 2 November 2002 – 10 February 2004
Representative of the town of Klatovy
In office 21 October 2006 – 21 October 2010
Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Belarus
In office January 2014 – 2018
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Azerbaijan
In office 10 September 2018 – 2022
Personal details
Born	(1965-03-02) 2 March 1965 (age 59) Plzeň, Czechoslovakia
Political party	ČSSD

Biography

Ekert was born on 2 March 1965 in Plzeň.^[1]

He graduated from an agricultural university and subsequently worked as a technician, agronomist, and designer.^[2]

In the 1996 elections, Ekert was elected to the Chamber of Deputies representing ČSSD (electoral district: West Bohemian Region).^[3] He successfully defended his mandate in the 1998 and 2002 elections. From 1996 to 1998, he served on the agricultural committee, from 1998 to 2006 on the committee for European integration, and additionally, from 1998 to 2002, he was a member of the budget committee. Between 2000 and 2003, he acted as the deputy chairman of the ČSSD parliamentary group.^[4][5][6]

In 2004, briefly before the European Parliament elections, Ekert served as a co-opted Member of the European Parliament until regularly elected representatives from the Czech Republic took office.^[1] He ran as a candidate for ČSSD in the 2004 European Parliament elections but was not elected.^[7]

Ekert was also involved in local politics. In the 1998 municipal elections, he unsuccessfully ran for the city council of Klatovy on behalf of ČSSD. He was successfully elected in the 2002 and 2006 municipal elections. As of 2006, he was professionally identified as the secretary to the deputy minister.^[8]

In 2010, Milan Ekert was listed as the press attaché at the Czech Embassy in Kyiv.^[9][10] From 2014 to 2018, he served as the Ambassador to Belarus.^[11] Starting in September 2018, he assumed the role of the extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Azerbaijan.^[12] He held this position until the summer of 2022.^[13]

References

1. "5th parliamentary term | Milan EKERT". europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. 1965-03-02. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
2. Zpráva ČTK: Kandidáti ČSSD pro volby do Evropského parlamentu, Datum vydání: 6.4.2004, Čas vydání: 10:00, ID: 20040323F00412.
3. "Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 31.5. - 1.6.1996". volby.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
4. "Parlament České republiky, Poslanecká sněmovna 1996 – 1998". psp.cz. Parlament České republiky, Poslanecká sněmovna. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
5. "Parlament České republiky, Poslanecká sněmovna 1998 – 2002". psp.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
6. "Parlament České republiky, Poslanecká sněmovna 2002 – 2006". psp.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
7. "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 11.06. – 12.06.2004". volby.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
8. . komunalnipolitika.cz. 2015-12-27. Archived from the original on 2015-12-27. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
9. Zpráva ČTK: Právo: Kyjev chce prodat budovu, ve které sídlí česká ambasáda, Datum vydání: 3.3.2010, Čas vydání: 01:41, ID: T201003030025501.
10. . novinky.cz. 2010-06-18. Archived from the original on 2010-06-18. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
11. "Bělorusko - Velvyslanectví Minsk". mzv.gov.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
12. "Mimořádný a zplnomocněný velvyslanec ČR v Ázerbájdžánu Milan Ekert se ujal úřadu". mzv.gov.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-01-16.
13. "Velvyslanec Milan Sedláček předal pověřovací listiny prezidentovi Ilhamu Aliyevovi". mzv.gov.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-01-16.