Petr Janyška

Petr Janyška (born in 1953) is a Czech diplomat and translator.

[1] He worked as a translator from English, French and Polish in the communist Czechoslovakia.

During the Velvet Revolution of 1989 Petr Janyška belonged to the inner core of the pro-democracy movement Civic Forum.

He was a key figure in establishment of independent media in the post-communist era.

Since 1995 he has been working in diplomacy, as an Ambassador to France, actively lobbying for Czech accession to European Union.

Petr Janyška