He graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 1991,[2] and subsequently served as the Czech Ambassador to Portugal (1993–94) and then Italy (1994-97).

[2] For a six-month period from January to July 1998, Stropnický was appointed Czech Minister of Culture in the caretaker government of Josef Tošovský.

[2] However, Babiš' government lost a confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies, and Stropnický was succeeded on 27 June 2018 by Jan Hamáček.

On 1 October 2018, Stropnický resigned from Parliament to return to the diplomatic service as Czech Ambassador to Israel.

In addition to Czech, he speaks English, French, and Italian, with a passive knowledge of Portuguese, Russian, and German.