Robert Plaga (born 21 July 1978) is a

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politician and university teacher. He served as

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in the Cabinet of

Andrej Babiš Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the Finance Minister of the Cze ...

Political career

In December 2011, Plaga joined the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. However, he left the position at the ministry, stating that his ideas about professional management of the agenda did not coincide with the ideas of the ministry. Between 2012 and 2015, Plaga worked as the director of the Center for Technology Transfer of the

Mendel University Mendel University in Brno () is located in Brno, Czech Republic. It was founded on 24 July 1919 on the basis of the former Tábor Academy. It now consists of five faculties and one institute - the Faculty of AgriSciences, Faculty of Forestry an ...

in Brno. After the resignation of the elected and appointed rector Vojtěch Adam, who did not take on the management of Mendel University, he was entrusted with the management of the university in the beginning of February 2022 as Deputy Minister of Education. He led the school for two months, at the end of March 2022, Jan Mareš took over as rector. After leaving

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, Plaga he became a Lieutenant of

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Personal life

Plaga is married to Jana Plagová.

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