Czech political scientists

Petr Fiala (born 1 September 1964) is a Czech politician and political scientist who has been the prime minister of the Czech Republic since November 2021 and leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 2014. He previously served as the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports from 2012 to 2013. Prior to entering politics, he was the rector of Masaryk University.

Petr Pithart (born 2 January 1941) is a Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (then a federal region of Czechoslovakia) from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.

Emil Aslan (born 19 November 1978 in Yerevan) is a Czech political scientist and university lecturer, since 2018 research director at the Institute of International Relations in Prague.

Mojmír Povolný (November 25, 1921 – August 21, 2012) was a professor of government at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, from 1958 to 1987. He began his academic career with a J.D. degree from Masaryk University School of Law in Czechoslovakia. On August 21, 2012, Povolný died at home in Appleton. In the earlier part of his life, he was politically exiled for devoting a majority of his life to liberating Czechoslovakia from Communist and Soviet occupation. Povolný's service to Czechoslovakia was recognized by President Vaclav Havel in 1995 when he was presented with the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Emil Aslan (aka Souleimanov; born 19 November 1978 in Yerevan) is a Czech political scientist and university lecturer.

Petr Robejšek (born 10 December 1948 in Zlín) is a Czech political scientist, economist and politician. From 1975 to 2016 he lived primarily in Germany. In 2016 he established the political party Realists. Since 2016, he lives primarily in the Czech Republic. He is known for his eurosceptic views.

Jiří Pehe (born 26 August 1955) , is a Czech political analyst and writer, and since 1999, has been the Director of New York University's academic center in Prague.

Vladimír Goněc, PhDr., Dr.Sc. Jean Monnet Chair (born 12 March 1950, Brno) is a Czech and Slovak historian and political scientist. He works at the Institute of Political Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Jaroslav Šabata (2 November 1927 – 14 June 2012) was a Czech political scientist, psychologist, and dissident during Czechoslovakia's Communist era. A leading dissident based in Brno, Šabata was a signatory of Charter 77 in 1977. He served as the spokesman of Charter 77, the organization named for the document, from 1978 to 1981.

Petr Cibulka Jr. (born January 9, 1985 in Opava, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech public figure. Cibulka is currently serving as the director of the Czech public policy think tank INFORMAČNÍ INSTITUT, which focuses on research on political issues.