Jiří Dienstbier serves as the Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation of the Czech Republic and as a member of The Senate of the Czech Republic elected for the region of Kladno. He is a long-serving member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), and previously acted as Chairman of the Young Social Democrats and headed the ČSSD‘s candidate listing for elections to the Prague City Council in 2010. From 2011 to 2013, he was the Deputy Chairman of the ČSSD and shadow Minister of Justice. In 2013, he stood as a candidate for President of the Czech Republic for ČSSD. He was Vice-Chairman of the ČSSD Senate Club, and a member of the Committee on Legal and Constiututional Affairs and the Committee on Agenda and Procedure of the Czech Senate from 2012 to 2014.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, was a member of the Federal Assembly Parliament in the 1990s, and worked as an attorney for a number of years.
