H.E. Mr. Milan Hovorka will hand over his credentials to the Honorable President of People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Ambassador Designate of the Czech Republic to the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh H.E. Mr. Milan Hovorka will hand over his credentials to H.E. Mr. Abdul Hamid, the Honorable President of People’s Republic of Bangladesh on 27^th June 2016. The PoC ceremony will take place at Bangabhaban, President Palace. On this occasion, H.E. will be traveling to Dhaka together with his spouse, Mrs. Jarmila Hovorková from 25^th June 2016 to 28^th June 2016. During his stay in Dhaka H.E. is expected to have some high-level meetings with concerned ministers, heads of government agencies and business associations. Apart from the PoC ceremony and official meetings, H.E. will visit the Honorary Consulate and have meeting with Honorary Consul, Mr. A.S.M. Mohiuddin Monem.

Brief Profile of H.E. Milan Hovorka:

Ambassador Milan Hovorka was born in 1961. In 1984, after graduating at the University of Economics in Prague he worked at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Trade of Czechoslovakia.  After fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989 he was sent to Geneva where he worked as a representative at the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN and other international organizations. In 1996 he was appointed the chief director of the Section for bilateral trade policy and for relations with the EU and EFTA at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. Between 1998 and 2004 he became the permanent representative of the Czech Republic to the World Trade Organization in the rank of Ambassador. While being there, he was a permanent representative and afterwards the director of the Mission and a member of various elected WTO bodies, including chair of the Council for Trade in Goods. In 2004, he was appointed the director of the Section of European countries and CIC countries at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. Since 1 September 2007, Milan Hovorka has been Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. In summer 2015, he has been appointed as the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. From 1st September 2016 he is in charge of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in New Delhi.