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General Commissioner's Advisory Board

Mgr. Petr Vachler

Petr Vachler is a film director and the director of the Czech Film and Television Academy. He was born on January 29, 1966 in the eastern Moravian town of Strakonice. He studied at primary and secondary schools in his hometown, where he was a competitive swimmer on the national level and he was selected to the junior Czech national and Czechoslovak swim teams. He also played water polo at the national level. In 1988, he successfully completed his studies at the Faculty of Education at Charles University with a degree in the field of special education. After completing his year-long compulsory military service, he continued his studies in the field of screenwriting at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. As a result of work commitments, he decided to leave this school after three years of study and focus on his company VAC Vachler Art Company, which was initially devoted only to advertising. During this period he produced and directed commercials (for Škoda Financial, Olympus, etc.) and music videos (for the bands Lucie and J.A.R. and the singer Janek Ledecký among others). He currently works as a producer and writer and has directed television programs for all three national domestic television stations (Czech Television, Nova and Prima). He is also the co-author of the most extensive documentary film on Czech cinematography, The Face of Czech Film. In 1993, he prepared the first annual Czech Lion film awards, which he himself had created. In 1995, he established the Czech Film and Television Academy, where he remains as its director. He is also preparing for the premiere of his first feature-length film.

Doc. Ing. JIŘÍ VOLF, CSc.

Jiří Volf is currently a Deputy Minister in the Czech Republic's Ministry of Finance. He was trained as a manual typesetter. He then studied at the University of Economics in Prague, where he received a degree in industrial economics (1967). He then completed post-graduate studies at the Brno Technical University (1987), where he was named associate professor in the field of management and planning (1988). This was followed by a number of short-term courses including one in the field of government administration (in Austria in 1990).
His extensive professional experience covers a wide range of fields. He has worked as a printer, for the state-run export company Artia, the Czechoslovak Merchandise Institute, and the Institute for Information in Education, in government for the Czechoslovak Ministry for Technical and Investment Development, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and at Charles University and the University of Economics in Prague.
His teaching experience has been closely tied to Charles University and the University of Economics in Prague for the past fifteen years. He currently is an occasional lecturer and a member of examination committees.
Over the past twenty years he has focused on management economics and the public-sector financing from both theoretical and practical points of view. Since 1993, he has worked at the Ministry of Finance as a divisional director and later deputy minister. He has worked on the writing of numerous laws and conceptual studies. He has written more than fifty published articles and studies and is the coauthor of several books including a number of university textbooks.
At the present time he is a member of the Board of Trustees of four universities, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Academic Councils of three universities. He is the representative of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic on several governmental advisory bodies, and on boards of directors and trustees and supervisory bodies for state, commercial and non-profit organizations.

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