NAME: Ransdorf, Miloslav.

Czech Republic

POLITICAL GROUP: Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left (EUL/NGL).

PARTY: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy.

CONSTITUENCY: Czech Republic.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Vice-Chairman of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Member of Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Co-operation Committees, and for Relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia; Committee on Regional Development; Substitute, Committee on Regional Development; Substitute, Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South Asia.

Political Career: Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1998-2004; Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996-2004; Vice-Chairman for Foreign Affairs of the Central Committee of KSČM Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 1993-2004; Member of the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic 1990-1992.

Profession: Research Assistant, Specialised Assistant Professor 1977-1984; Senior Research Fellow 1984-1990.

Education: Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Doctor of Philosophy 1978; Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Holder of the Postgraduate Qualification 'Candidate of Sciences' 1982.

Author of: Author of several books and studies, for example books on the history of the Reformation (Hus and Comenius), on Marx and Che Guevara, on the origins of American political culture, on Kurt Konrad, on Luther and on Jefferson.

Born: 15 February 1953, Rakovník.