Karel Dyba (21 October 1940 – 22 July 2024) was a Czech economist, politician and diplomat.
He served the Czech Republic's first Minister of Economy from 1992 until 1996 with the First Cabinet of Václav Klaus and played a key role in the new nation's early economic development.
[1] In 1994, he became the first Czech government minister to visit Taiwan.
Dyba left politics following his election loss in 1996 and worked in the private sector as an investment banking and strategic economics consultant.
[1] In 2007, he was appointed Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a position he held until 2012.