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Born September 2, 1948 (age 75)
Brno, Czechoslovakia ( 1948-09-02 ) Alma mater Masaryk University
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Martin Potůček, PhD. is Czech university professor, public policy analyst, journalist.
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- Martin pot ek bohat se na et en mus spravedliv pod let v ce ne chud
- Biography
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In the past, he studied the teleonomic qualities of differentiated social actors, processes of cultivating and utilising human potential, and factors influencing health and health policy. At present, his research concentrates on the processes of public policy formulation and implementation in the Czech Republic (and particularly the regulatory functions of the market, the government, and the civic sector), on the problems of public administration reform, on European integration processes, and on the development of visions and strategies for the Czech state. As an author/co-author and editor/co-editor, he published 23 scientific books and three textbooks (in four cases as their single author), ca 70 articles in scientific journals, and more than 90 research papers and policy project reports until the end of 2009.
Since 2013, Martin Potucek is Head of Pension Reform committee. The committee is extremely controversial and not taken with respect from the society after admittedly failing with the decision to cancel the 2 Saving Pillar (volunteer overpay to private entities using part of the income tax insurance). That decision will reduce the pension savings to large number of tax payers and enforce them to poor life at the expense of other society members that contributed less to the system. On top of that Potucek as director make an organizational plan for the committee consist of 70 members. The idea to collect representatives form all political parties and institutions led to a complete stall of the organization, as no decision can be taken on time.
Controversy: Martin Potucek was accused that his pay for the Pension Reform Committee is 100,000 CZK per month (an equivalent of EUR 4000 as per 2013 rates). This was taken as an abuse by nearly all political parties, media and worker organizations. meanwhile, in Czech Republic, the maximum pension is 17,000 CZK per month. Having that fact, Potucek was numerous times accused in hypocrisy and being a "fake socialist - millionaire". Among with the pay in Pension Committee, he has full-time role in the Charles University, where he his incomes are exceeding 1Mn CZK per year. His age of 66 makes him above the retirement age and technically he should live on the maximum of 17,000CZK per month. His opponents often state that mr. Potucek is taking 10 times more pension per month than the maximum allowed, working on 2 positions and refusing to explain how he is managing them both.
Martin pot ek bohat se na et en mus spravedliv pod let v ce ne chud
Biography
He studied philosophy, mathematics, political science, and sociology at the Masaryk University in Brno. He worked as a researcher at the Department of Complex Modelling, Sportpropag, and later in the Institute of Social Medicine and Organisation of Health Services in Prague, until 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree in Management Theory in 1989 from the University of Economics, Prague. Than he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (receiving a M.Sc. in European Social Policy, 1991) and took part in numerous professional fellowship and exchange programs, including Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships in the U.S. (1992), at the Oxford University (1993–1994), at the University of Konstanz (1997–2000), at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (1998) and at the CEU in Budapest (1998–2000).
In 1990 he joined the newly established Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague. He habilitated there in 1992 as Associate Professor of Sociology. In 1999, he became Full Professor of Public and Social Policy at the new study program he had co-founded. He served as the Director of the Institute of Sociological Studies at the same Faculty (1994–2003). He established and runs the Center for Social and Economic Strategies there (2000–present)[1].
He is a member of several scientific and editorial boards. He was elected Chairman of the Masaryk Czech Sociological Association in 1995 (Vice-Chairman, 1994 and 1996) and member of the Steering Committee of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) in 1997. In 2000-2002, he acted as the elected President of this international nonprofit association. He served as the First Vice-Chairman of the Research and Development Council of the Government of the Czech Republic (1999–2004). He acted as Permanent Guest Professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany (2002–2008). He served as an advisor to Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs (1998–2006) and to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (2002–2004). He has been awarded the Sri Chinmoy International Honour "Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart"[2] (2003) and the NISPAcee Alena Brunovska Award [3] (2004) for teaching excellence in public administration. Since 2008 and from 2004 to 2005 he was a member of Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities, Research and Development Council of the Czech Government [4].
Potůček ran for Czech president in 2003. He seeked Social democratic nomination but he came 4th in presidential primaries ad wasn't nominated.