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Born 1981 in Prague

studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and viola at the Prague Conservatory. Since 2005 he has worked as editor of Czech Radio as part of the project Stories of the 20th Century. At Post Bellum held the position of Deputy Director, later a member of the Board of Trustees. He is the co-author, curator or producer of dozens of exhibitions, articles, documentary shows and exhibition projects. Between 2011 and 2014, he worked at the Ministry of Defence in the department issuing Third Resistance Certificates. He then returned to Post Bellum, where he initiated the formation of eight branches of Memory of the Nation. At the same time, he served as Secretary of the College of the Memory of the Nation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Post Bellum, z. ú. He is a member of the board of directors of sister foreign organizations Post Bellum SK and Post Bellum Ukraine.

In February 2022, he co-founded, led and coordinated the Help Ukraine Collection with Memory of the Nation. In 2023 he became a member of the Board of Directors of Group D. under the leadership of Ondřej Vetchý.

Born 1976

Col. Mgr. Otakar Foltín, Ph.D. is an officer of the Czech Army and a Czech lawyer. He served on the Force Species Development Section, the Joint Operations Center, and the Special Forces Directorate. In 2022-23 he was Chief of Military Police and in 2024-25 Government Coordinator of Strategic Communications of the State. He has been deployed repeatedly in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

He is currently the Deputy Chief of the Military Office of the President of the Republic. He deals with unconventional warfare, hybrid conflicts, information operations and international law; as an expert on international law, he collaborates with the Czech Red Cross. He is also engaged in pedagogical activities.

He is co-author of the books: The Nature of Change (Vyšehrad 2015), At the Interface (Vyšehrad 2016), People and History (Academia 2017), Punctuated Equilibria Paradigm and Security in the Modern World (Potomac Institute of Policy Studies 2018), From Storm to Storm: 1918-1939 (Academia 2022), Behind the Mirror — Hybrid War (Academia 2022)

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Martin Hála is a Sinologist and Orientalist. He studied in Prague, Shanghai, Berkeley and Harvard, taught in Prague, Bratislava and Lisbon, and led several projects in various countries in Asia. In 2016 he founded the Sinopsis.cz project in close cooperation with the Institute of Far East (now Department of Sinology) FFUK.

geboren 1970

He graduated from the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague. He completed postgraduate studies in Neurosciences at 1. LF UK, two-year post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and a specialist internship at the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley. From 2007 he worked in the Czech Army, spent a year on missions in Afghanistan and until 2019 he was the main expert of the Czech Republic for the field of psychiatry. He has also worked in NGOs as a volunteer at Mother Teresa Hospital in Kolkata and for People in Need in Kosovo.

Since 2017 he has been the head of the Psychiatric Clinic of LF and FN Plzeň, where he is responsible for teaching Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Ethics. In her research, she focuses on the neurobiology of violence, its causes, consequences and possibilities of therapy.

Born 1982 in Prague

He graduated with a bachelor's degree in History from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and completed a two-semester internship at the Eberhardts-Karl-Universität in Tübingen. In 2001-2011 he was a permanent collaborator-researcher of the civic association Post Bellum, in 2008-2009 he worked briefly as an employee of the Editorial Department of ÚSTR and as an external collaborator of Czech Radio within the editorial group Stories of the 20th Century. He occasionally publishes in the media (Forum 24, Deník N, Czech Radio, Bubínek Revolveru and others).

He works professionally as a business analyst in the field of software development of digital banking services, especially in MENA regions and in Western and Eastern Europe. He is fluent in English, German and Romanian.

Within the framework of Strong Europe, it is engaged in developing cooperation with partners in the German-speaking and Romanian-speaking areas.

Born 1985

graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, Faculty of Business Administration. Between 2007 and 2015 he worked at NEWTON Business Development, a.s., where he started as an analyst and then worked as a project manager. He participated in the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, crisis management and the implementation of strategic management tools with a focus on improving the performance of companies.

From 2018-2021, he held the position of Managing Director of HR Summit, where he was responsible for project management, business development and procurement. He also devoted himself to the issue of legal employment of foreign workers and migration policy. Since 2021, he has served as a manager at GoldenGate, where he focuses on client relationship development and strategic planning. At the same time, he is engaged in the humanitarian field as a humanitarian aid manager in the ECU organization. She manages humanitarian projects, coordinates aid distribution, and works with nonprofit and public sector partners.

He is the initiator of the Drones for Ukraine project, which supports the defense of Ukraine through modern technologies. The project was supported by actor Václav Vydra. He has long been dedicated to the development of Czech-Ukrainian business relations and investment opportunities. He is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian, English at a communicative level.

Born 1981 in Prague

He graduated with a master's degree in Law and Jurisprudence from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He completed a one-year study residency in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He has been active in advocacy since 2007. Since 2013, he has been practicing general law as an independent lawyer. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Czech Commendation of the Order of St. George and since 2022 he serves in the leadership of the Order in Vienna, where he participates in the coordination and support of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. He is fluent in English, has a passive knowledge of the German language. He is married and has three sons.

Bohdan worked for a long time at the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic in the field of foreign debt collection. He focuses on Czech-Ukrainian relations and the Ukrainian diaspora in the Czech Republic.

He is a member of the Council of Government for National Minorities of the Czech Republic and chairman of the international organization European Congress of Ukrainians.