Jan Stejskal, born in 1978. Graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague (2005) where he shortly worked as a researcher. In 2006-2019, he held a number of positions at the Defence Policy and Strategy Division of the MoD. In 2012-2015, he served as a defence adviser of the Permanent Delegation of the Czech Republic to NATO, responsible for defence policy and defence planning issues. In 2018, he worked as a senior expert of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga. Since September 2019, he lives in Latvia and works in Latvian National Defence Academy, initially as a researcher of the Center for Security and Strategic Research, and currently in newly established Defence Technology and Innovation Center. Apart from the defence planning, societal resilience, and defence capability development issues, he also studies the Czechoslovak defence effort in the late 1930s.

Country: Czech Republic

01/10/2021