Jan Fischer (politician)

Jan Fischer
Fischer in 2010
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
In office 9 April 2009 – 13 July 2010
President	Václav Klaus
Preceded by	Mirek Topolánek
Succeeded by	Petr Nečas
Minister of Finance
In office 10 July 2013 – 29 January 2014
Prime Minister	Jiří Rusnok
Preceded by	Miroslav Kalousek
Succeeded by	Andrej Babiš
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
In office 10 July 2013 – 29 January 2014
Prime Minister	Jiří Rusnok
Preceded by	Karel Schwarzenberg
Succeeded by	Andrej Babiš
President of the Statistical Office
In office 24 April 2003 – 27 July 2010
Preceded by	Marie Bohatá
Succeeded by	Iva Ritschelová
Personal details
Born	(1951-01-02) 2 January 1951 (age 73) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Political party	Communist Party (1980–1989) Independent (1989–present)
Spouse	Dana Fischerová
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Economics

Jan Fischer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈfɪʃɛr]; born 2 January 1951) is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010, heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of Jiří Rusnok.^[1]

A lifelong statistician, he served as president of the Czech Statistical Office beginning in April 2003.^[2]

In 2012, Fischer announced his candidacy for the 2013 presidential election. In the first round of the election, held in January 2013, he placed third with 16.35% of the vote (841,437 votes).^[3] He did not qualify for the second round.