Jan Mládek (born June 1, 1960) is a Czech economist and Social Democratic politician who served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2014 to 2017.

[2] In 1991 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Economics at Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.

[4] In 2004–2005, he worked as an economic advisor to the Prime Minister[1] and subsequently became a member of the Cabinet directly.

[6] In January 2014 he was the ČSSD candidate for the post of Minister of Industry and Trade in the Government of Bohuslav Sobotka.

Until the start of the year 2014 he was Chairman of FONTES RERUM, a cooperative for economic, political and social studies.