Jiří Dienstbier Jr.

Jiří Dienstbier Jr. (born 27 May 1969, Washington, D.C.) is a Czech Senator, former Deputy Chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party, attorney-at-law, and a former shadow minister of Justice. In March 2011, he won the by-election for the Kladno constituency (northwest of Prague) to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and received the mandate that became vacant after the death of his father.
Dienstbier Jr. became the official candidate of the Czech Social Democratic Party in the first direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic, held in January 2013.
His father was Jiří Dienstbier Sr., a well-known Czech dissident and politician.
Early life and background
Jiří Dienstbier Jr. is the son of Jiří Dienstbier Sr., former journalist and then civil rights activist who became the first Minister of Foreign Affairs in the newly democratic Czechoslovakia, and Zuzana Dienstbierová, née Wíšová, a psychologist. His parents...