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Tomas Hudecek: Mayor of Prague

The mayor of the Czech capital shares his perspective on the strengths of his country’s economy.

Hudecek is the mayor of Prague, a position that he was elected to in June 2013.

Hudecek has been a representative of his city since 2010, after being elected into the Prague City Assembly. A year later he became the deputy mayor, and in this role he focused greatly on transportation.

Since 2003, Hudecek has been a researcher and lecturer at the department of applied geoinformatics and cartography at the Charles University Faculty of Science, and has been researching transport in his country, looking at the period from 1918 to 2020.

Hudecek shared his perspective on the strengths of the Czech economy.

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