Jan Kasl

Jan Kasl studied at Czech Technical University in Prague. The recorded working language is Czech. The field of work recorded is architecture and politics. Places of work recorded in the authority are Prague. Positions recorded include Mayor of Prague and Prague City Assembly member.

• Name — Jan Kasl • Office — Mayor of Prague • Term Start — 26 November 1998 • Predecessor — Jan Koukal • Term End — 28 May 2002 • Successor — Igor Němec • Office2 — Member of the Prague City Assembly • Term Start2 — 24 November 1990 • Term End2 — 24 November 1994 • Term Start3 — 14 November 1998 • Term End3 — 2 November 2006 • Office4 — Leader of the European Democrats • Term Start4 — 17 December 2002 • Term End4 — 28 January 2006 • Born — 31 December 1951 • Birthplace — Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) • Party — Civic Democratic Party (1991–2002) European Democrats (2002–2006) SNK European Democrats (2006) Independent (2006–present) • Alma Mater — Czech Technical University in Prague • Occupation — architect, politician • Illustration — Jan Kasl (2007)

Jan Kasl was born in 1951 in Prague. He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1970 to 1976. After graduation he worked as an architect for a cooperative housing enterprise. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he founded his own architectural company, which he left after he became mayor of Prague in 1998. He is married for the second time with journalist Terezie Jungrová, his former media consultant and granddaughter of Ferdinand Peroutka. He has three daughters from his first marriage and two grandchildren.

• Illustration — Jan Kasl (right) in election campaign in May 2006 After the Velvet Revolution he entered local politics in Prague. He was elected in 1990 into the city council for Civic Forum. After the break-up of Civic Forum he became a member of the conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS). At the end of its term in the city council he left politics. He returned to politics in 1998, when he became the mayor of Prague at the head of a coalition between his ODS and the Czech Social Democratic Party, despite the opposition of each party's national leaders. In 2002, he resigned from the Civic Democratic Party two weeks before the parliamentary elections, because he thought that party was not able to deal with corruption, and as he opposed the party's cooperation with the Social Democrats. That December, he founded the European Democrats, which in 2006 he and most members left to merge into the SNK European Democrats, of which he became vice president. Two months after the 2006 parliamentary elections (in which party won 2.1% of the vote but no seats) he decided to leave politics and return to his profession as an architect. In January 2014, Kasl was offered by ANO 2011 to serve as their lead candidate for the 2014 Prague municipal election. However, this offer was retracted that May, as Adriana Krnáčová was selected as lead candidate instead. In response that June, Kasl announced a run for the Prague City Assembly at the head of a new municipal non-partisan list, the Democrats of Jan Kasl, supported by the SNK European Democrats and by the United Democrats – Association of Independents, the latter of which was the legal successor to the European Democrats. Kasl's electoral list received 2.47% of votes and no seats, after which he again retired from politics.

Kasl established his own architectural studio in 2007. Since 2019, Kasl has been president of the Czech Chamber of Architects. He is a member of the Prague Society for International Cooperation, an NGO whose main goals are networking and the development of a new generation of responsible, well-informed leaders and thinkers.

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Jan Kasl worked in architecture and politics. Recorded positions include Mayor of Prague, Prague City Assembly member and party leader. He worked at Prague.