MARTIN POTUČEK
Born in Prague on 2nd September 1948. He studied philosophy, mathematics, political science and sociology at the Masaryk University in Brno. Until 1989 he worked as a researcher at the Department of Complex Modelling, Sportpropag, and later at the Institute of Social Medicine and Organisation of Health Care.

 

In 1989 he completed his Ph.D. degree in the Theory of Management. Then he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1990-1991) and took part in professional fellowships and exchange programmes of Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in the USA (1992), at Oxford University (1993-1994), at Konstanz University (1997-2000), at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (1998) and at CEU in Budapest (1998-2000). In 1990 he joined the newly established Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. He habilitated there in 1992 in sociology and in 1998 he gained full professorship in public and social policy at the new study programme of which he was co-founder. Between 1994 and 2003 he was Director of the Institute of Sociological Studies and since 2000 he has been Head of the Centre for Social and Economic Strategies there. In 2002 he was appointed the Permanent Guest Professor at the Konstanz University. 

 

In 1995 he was elected the Chairman (1994 and 1996 Vice-Chairman) of the Masaryk Czech Sociological Association. He serves as the First Vice-Chairman of the Research and Development Council of the Government of the Czech Republic and the Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.