Jan Lipavský

Jan Lipavský was born in Prague, where he graduated from grammar school. He subsequently completed International Territorial Studies at the Institute of International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, and also spent a year at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom.

He has been working on foreign, defense and security policy in the Pirate Party since 2015.
He served in the Chamber of Deputies for four years as Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Defense Committee. He was also a member of the Standing Committee on Hybrid Threats, the Subcommittee on Defense, Cyber and Security Policy and Strategic Concepts of the Czech Republic, and the Subcommittee on Migration and Asylum Policy. He focuses primarily on energy and international security issues and hybrid threats.

Before entering politics, he developed a career in the private sector in the field of information technology in banking, working for, for example, McKinsey & Company, Euro RSCG, ZOOT, Total Solutions and Moro Systems.