Ivan Pilip, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ivan Pilip

Czech politician and economist

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1963

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Profession: politician, economist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ivan Pilip (born 4 August 1963 in Prague) is a Czech politician and economist who was Finance Minister from June 1997 to July 1998, after having been the Minister of Education, Youth and Sport from 1994 to 1997. Pilip was educated as an economist, before entering politics in the Christian Democratic Party (KDS) after the fall of Communism in the Czech Republic.
Pilip served in government from 1992 to 1998, leading the KDS before it merged with the Civic Democratic Party.
Pilip was among the deputies who split from the Civic Democrats to form the Freedom Union and in 1998 he went into opposition. Pilip was detained in Cuba in early 2001 for almost a month after meeting opponents of the Cuban government, before being released after international pressure on Cuba.
He lost his seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002, but would serve as interim leader of Freedom Union for a period afterwards, before serving as a Vice-President at the European Investment Bank from 2004 to 2007.