NAME: Rouček, Dr Libor.

CZECH REPUBLIC

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D).

PARTY: Česká strana sociálně demokratická.

CONSTITUENCY: CZECH REPUBLIC

Committees: First Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; Substitute, Committee on Budgets; Member of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China; Substitute, Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Co-operation Committee.

Political Career:
Member of the European Parliament, Czech Social Democratic Party, Head of the Czech Delegation 2004; Observer Member of the European Parliament (Committee on Foreign Affairs), Head of the Czech Delegation 2003-2004; Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 2002–2004; Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Vice-Chairman of the Committee for European Integration; Member of the Permanent Delegation for the Co-operation with the European Parliament; Member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliament Assembly of NATO; Chairman of the Czech-American Parliamentary Group; Government Spokesperson, Government of the Czech Republic 1998-2002; Spokesperson of the Czech Social Democratic Party 1998; Documentation Clerk, Socialist Party of Austria Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 1980–1983; Exile in Austria 1977.


Profession: University of Sydney, Australia, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Practice at Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA 1985–1987; Editor, later European Associate, Voice of America, Washington DC, USA 1988-1991; Research Associate, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, United Kingdom, 1991-1992; Sydney, Australia, Research, Australian and East-Asian markets 1993–1997.

Education: University of Vienna, Austria, Bachelor and Master of Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology and Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations 1978–1984; High School, Kladno, Czechoslovakia, 1973.

Languages: English, German, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Serbocroat.

Author of: Several publications, including a book on Czech–German relations.

Hobbies: Golf

Born: 4 September 1954, Kladno, Czechoslovakia.

Marital status: Married.

Children: 3.