Profile

Dr. Ondřej Svoboda serves as a Deputy Head of Political and Economic Section of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo. Before his posting he was a Deputy Head of the Unit of International Law of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic where he provided legal expertise in investment and trade law issues and led the Czech delegation at the OECD Investment Committee and the UNCITRAL Working Group III on the reform of ISDS. Furthermore, he acted as a Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Czech National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and lectured public international law and international economic law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 2020. Dr. Svoboda regularly publishes on various aspects of international economic law and the EU Common Commercial Policy, for instance in the Journal of World Trade, the European Foreign Affairs Review, or the Transnational Dispute Management.