Jana Hybášková

Who is Jana Hybášková?

Jana Hybášková is a Czech politician and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the European Union in Iraq. From 2004 to 2009, she was a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. She is chairwoman of the European Democratic Party.

As a Member of the European Parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a substitute on the Committee on Budgets and chairwoman of the European delegation for relations with Israel. Jana Hybášková is also a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. She has been a strong critic of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has advocated closer relations between Israel and Europe.

She graduated in Arabic at Charles University, earning a doctorate in 1989, and worked at the Foreign Ministry of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic from 1991 to 1997. She was Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Slovenia 1997–2001, and then in Qatar and Kuwait.

She is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and the co-organizer of its preceding conference.