Alexandr Vondra
Alexandr Vondra (1961), signatory and one of the spokespersons of Charter 77, and member of the Polish-Czechoslovak Solidarity, was President Václav Havel’s foreign policy adviser (1990-92), deputy
head of Czech diplomacy (1992-97), ambassador to Washington (1997-2001), government plenipotentiary for the NATO summit in Prague (2001-2002), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-7), European affairs (2007-9) and Defence (2010-12), and senator (2006-12). Since 2019, he has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Civic Democratic Party ODS, of which he has been Vice-
President since January 2020.