Richard Brabec | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
Primeminister: | Andrej Babiš |
Term Start: | 13 December 2017 |
Term End: | 30 April 2019 |
Predecessor: | Pavel Bělobrádek |
Successor: | Alena Schillerová |
Office1: | Minister of the Environment |
Primeminister1: | Bohuslav Sobotka Andrej Babiš |
Term Start1: | 29 January 2014 |
Term End1: | 17 December 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Tomáš Podivínský |
Successor1: | Anna Hubáčková |
Office2: | First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
Primeminister2: | Bohuslav Sobotka |
Term Start2: | 24 May 2017 |
Term End2: | 13 December 2017 |
Predecessor2: | Andrej Babiš |
Successor2: | Jan Hamáček (2018) |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start3: | 26 October 2013 |
Birth Date: | 5 July 1966 |
Birth Place: | Kladno, Czechoslovakia |
Alma Mater: | Charles University in Prague |
Richard Brabec (born 5 July 1966) is a Czech politician, who served as the minister for the Environment from 2014 to 2021, and deputy prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2019.
A former manager in the chemical industry (Unipetrol, Spolana Neratovice and Lovochemie), Brabec first entered the Chamber of Deputies in October 2013, elected for ANO 2011.
In January 2014, he became the Czech Minister for the Environment, in the government of Bohuslav Sobotka,[1] and remained in this post under Prime Minister Andrej Babiš until December 2021. From December 2017 to April 2019 he served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.