Vaclav Bartuska
Vaclav Bartuska
Czech Republic
Service in the Government
2006 – present |
Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Key part of the just-ended Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union. |
2010 – 2014 |
Government Plenipotentiary for Expansion of Temelin Nuclear Power Plant, Czech Republic Overseeing the tender of three major suppliers for planned two new units at Temelin NPP. |
ACER
2020 – present |
Member (from 2022), Alternate Member (2020-2021) of the Administrative Board of ACER (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators), EU Agency |
Revolution / Service in the Parliament
1989 – 1990 |
One of the student leaders of the revolution in November 1989; due to previous experience with Secret Police (first detained at 20) elected by Parliament to the Commission investigating the Secret Police Disbanding the Secret Police shortly after the Revolution was the best job I ever had |
Teaching
2003 – present |
New York University (NYU), Prague campus, course “European Security after the Cold War” |
2017 – present |
Czech Technical University, Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL ČVUT), course “Energy Security” |
2018 – present |
College of Europe, course “Energy Diplomacy” |
Schools, scholarships
1987 – 1992 |
Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences |
1994 – 1995 |
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs) |
1999 |
Marshall Fellowship |
Books
1990 |
Polojasno (“Partly sunny”) – covers the work on investigating the Secret Police, sold 230.000 copies |
1992, 1995, 1997 |
Three more books |
Languages
Czech – native speaker
English, Russian – fluent
German, Spanish – intermediate
Born July 14, 1968, in Praha, then Czechoslovakia; Czech citizen
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