Czech Foreign Intelligence Has New Director
01. 06. 2007 | ÚZSIAs of 1 June 2007, Ivo Schwarz became a new Director of UZSI. The government agreed with his nomination during its session on 30 May 2007. Schwarz replaced an interim director, Jiri Lang, who had been in charge of UZSI since the end of September 2006.
Ivo Schwarz has been a member of UZSI since 1999. For the next four years, his scope of duties involved cooperation with partner secret services abroad, or, in other words, intelligence diplomacy. In 2003, he was appointed a deputy director responsible for logistics, and, two years later, he took up the post of security director.
The new Director of UZSI received an education in economics. He spent almost all of his professional career working in different positions throughout security structures of the state. During that time, he completed his security studies at the Police Academy as well as several scholarships and courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad.
UZSI Director's CV is available here.