The Diplomat
Diplomat Libor Sečka will replace, in mid-August, as ambassador of the Czech Republic to Spain, Ivan Jančárek, who ends his stay in our country, where he arrived in summer 2018.
Throughout these five years, Ivan Jančárek, who has now been appointed ambassador to South Korea, has carried out intense activity in Spain, which included the work carried out during the six-month Czech Presidency of the EU Council in the second half of 2022. He has also maintained numerous contacts with representatives of Spanish civil society, both in Madrid and in the rest of Spain’s autonomous communities.
His replacement, Libor Sečka, is an experienced diplomat who was already posted in our country between 1990 and 1995, the last three years as ‘number two’ of the Embassy, which, among other things, allows him to speak fluent Spanish, along with other languages such as Russian, Italian and English.
Subsequently, the new ambassador served in the Latin American department of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as in the European Union department, participating in the negotiation process for the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU club.
In 1999, he was appointed Ambassador to Mexico and, a year later, Permanent Representative to the European Union. From 2003 to 2006, he was Ambassador to Italy and Malta and then returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director General for the European Union, a post he held until 2009.
From 2009 to 2015, Libor Sečka was ambassador to China and from 2015 to 2021, to the United Kingdom. He was currently special envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Indo-Pacific area.
