Czeslaw Walek

Czeslaw Walek (born 31 January 1975) is a Czech lawyer and LGBT activist of Polish origin.

He served as Deputy Minister of Human Rights and Minorities from 2009 to 2011, and is the founder and chairman of the Prague Pride association that organises the annual festival of the same name.

Walek studied law in Kraków at Jagiellonian University from 1993 to 1999, supported by a stipend from the Polish government.

[1] He spent a year as an Erasmus student in Antwerp, Belgium,[citation needed] and graduated with honors in 2000 from Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, where he focused on human rights.

Between 2007 and 2009 he was the program director for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia at the US-based charity Trust for Civil Society in Central Eastern Europe.