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| − | |description=Czech presidential advisor who attended the [[2001 Bilderberg]]. Formerly worked for [[Freedom House]] and [[Radio Free Europe]].
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| − | |alma_mater=Charles University in Prague
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| − | |birth_date=August 26, 1955
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| − | |birth_place=Rokycany, Czechoslovakia
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| − | |title=Director of the Political Department of the Chancellery
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| − | '''Jiří Pehe''' is a Czech writer and presidential advisor. During his years of exile he worked for CIA-close organizations, before moving back to [[Czechia]] and becoming an advisor to President [[Václav Havel]].<ref name=ncsml>https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223236/http://www.ncsml.org/Oral-History/All-Interviews/20120105/189/Pehe-Jir.aspx</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002934/http://www.ned.org/research/research-council/jiri-pehe</ref>
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| − | Pehe attended the [[2001 Bilderberg meeting]], and the [[neoconservative]] 2007 [[Democracy & Security International Conference]]. He is a member of the [[George Soros]] financed group [[European Council on Foreign Relations]], and a former board member of the [[Open Society Foundations|Open Society Fund]].
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| − | ==Background==
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| − | Pehe was born in [[Rokycany]] (West Bohemia), [[Czechoslovakia]]. He studied law and philosophy at the [[Charles University in Prague]], where he received his doctorate in [[1980]]. In September [[1981]] he fled [[Czechoslovakia]] to [[Italy]] via[[ Yugoslavia]].<ref name=prager>http://www.pragerzeitung.cz/index.php/home/politik/16480-klaus-ist-tschechiens-geschicktester-politiker</ref>
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| − | ==Career==
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| − | After a brief stay in a refugee camp near [[Rome]], he emigrated to the [[United States]] with his wife and resided in [[New York City]]. There he was granted political asylum.<ref name=prager/> Until [[1983]] he worked as a night watchman in a hotel. <ref name=ncsml/> He attended the School of International Affairs at [[Columbia University]] in New York and received his doctorate in [[1985]]. From [[1985]] to [[1988]] he worked for [[Freedom House]] and wrote, among other things, articles for the New York Times .<ref name=prager/>
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| − | From August 1988 he worked as an analyst for the research institute of [[Radio Free Europe]] in [[Munich]].<ref name=ncsml/> In November [[1989]] he became head of the department for research and analysis of [[Central European]] issues.<ref name=prager/> After Radio Free Europe moved its headquarters from Munich to [[Prague]] in [[1995]], he moved back to the [[Czech Republic]]. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as Director of the Research and Analysis Department at the [[Open Media Research Institute]] in Prague. <ref name=NED/> From 1997 to 1999 he was Director of the Political Department of the Chancellery of Czech President [[Václav Havel]]<ref name=prager/>and later he worked until 2003 as a presidential advisor on foreign policy issues.<ref name=ncsml/><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/666520.stm</ref><ref>http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/vaclav-klaus-und-milos-zeman-einigen-sich-auf-ein-regierungsbuendnis---oppositionsparteien-befuerchten-wahlrechtsaenderung-parteienvertrag-veraendert-politische-landschaft-tschechiens,10810590,9452734.html</ref>
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| − | From[[ 2005]] to [[2008]], he was a board member of the [[Open Society Fund]]. Since [[2007]], he has been a member of the board of trustees of the [[Trust for Civil Society in Central Europe]], an American foundation. In 2011, together with [[Vít Klepárnik]] and [[Bohuslav Sobotka]], he was one of the founders of the think tank [[CESTA]] Center for Social-Market Economy and Open Democracy.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141111085555/http://www.centrum-cesta.cz/files/o-ceste/poradni-vybor/pehe-zivotopis.pdf</ref>
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| − | Pehe wrote numerous publications, essays and treatises that have been published worldwide. He published several books, including three novels.<ref name=NED>https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002934/http://www.ned.org/research/research-council/jiri-pehe</ref>
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| − | Jiří Pehe has been Director of [[New York University in Prague]] since [[1999]]. <ref name=ncsml/> <ref>http://www.nyu.edu/global/global-academic-centers/prague.html</ref> He is a member of the [[International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council]]<ref name=NED/> As a political observer and analyst, he comments on current political developments and world affairs for Czech television and radio as well as for international media. <ref name=prager/><ref name=NED/><ref>http://www.rferl.org/content/interview_pehe_on_havel/24425904.html</ref><ref>http://orf.at/stories/2203934/2203251/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010336/http://www.eurotopics.net/de/home/presseschau/archiv/results/?search=1&where=all&smallsearch=1&searchwords=Ji%C5%99%C3%AD+Pehe</ref>
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