Ing. Mgr. Oldřich Kužílek

Oldřich Kužílek is an advisor on public administration openness, freedom of expression, freedom of information, and privacy protection. He is also a director, moderator, and politician. He is co-author of the Act on Free Access to Information and works as an advisor and trainer in the areas of the right to information, personal data protection, and freedom of expression in the media. He is the author of several publications. He has served as an advisor to the Senate's Standing Committee for Privacy Protection, a member of the Government Council for Human Rights, a senior ministerial counsellor at the Ministry of the Interior, and a member of government, ministerial, and Prague advisory bodies on anti-corruption and transparency. Together with Institut H21 and the SvobodaSlova.Online platform, he carried out a project on freedom of expression at the European level. He is, among other things, an analyst at Otevřená společnost o.p.s. on the projects Free and Safe Information Space and Independent Media and Fearless Journalists, the Information Ombudsman of the City of Prague, a personal data protection expert for the Association of Local Governments (SMS-služby), and a member of the Association for Personal Data Protection. He is also a long-serving councillor and chair of a committee of Prague 6 Municipal District, and a delegate for media and transparency affairs.