Petr Havlik is a senior diplomat and economist, specialising in economic diplomacy, space policy, international trade and international transport. He currently serves as a Chief of Economic and Commercial Section of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Rome. Petr Havlik started his professional career in the private sector in 1986, after having completed one year military service as a logistics/transport officer. He worked in the field of exports of agricultural tractors and machinery, motor vehicles and tyres. From 1995 to 2011, he served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in the areas of international trade, space policy, industrial development and security policy. He served at the Headquarters in Prague, at the Permanent Missions of Czech Republic in Geneva and Vienna, and at the Embassy in The Hague. From 2011 to 2016, Petr Havlik was assigned to the Delegation of the European Union to the International Organisations in Vienna as First Counsellor for space policy, international trade law, security policy, and energy security. During this period, he chaired more than 430 EU coordination meetings on space policy, security policy and international trade law, and negotiated a number of UN documents, including ministerial and UNGA declarations, on behalf of the EU. Under his chairmanship, more than 150 EU statements and interventions were drafted. From 2016 to 2020, Petr Havlik worked at the Headquarters of the European External Action Service in Brussels in the Space Task Force in the areas of space policy, space law and security policy. During the Presidency of the Czech Republic in the Council of the EU in 2022, he chaired the Council Working Party on the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
Petr Havlik earned a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Economics in Prague, a postgraduate diploma in English from Charles University in Prague, and an MBA from Sheffield Hallam University and the Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds the rank of Minister-Counselor in the Czech Diplomatic Service.
