Birth: |
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| 16. July. 1964 | Varnsdorf (in Děčín district) |
Education, scientific and scientific-pedagogical degrees: |
| 2000 | Doc. degree - VŠE - University of Economics in Prague |
| 1993 | CSc. - VŠE - University of Economics in Prague |
| 1986 | Ing. - Technical University of Liberec (former Technical University of Mechanical and Textile Engineering) |
Professional education abroad: |
| 1996 | Statistical Office of the European Communities - Creation of European System for the Collection of Economic Information of the Environment (SERIEE), Luxembourg |
| 1992–1998 | Short-term study visits focused on environmental statistics in France, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany |
| 1991 | Environmental management, UNEP, Finland |
Professional experience: |  |
| since 2010 | on 27 July 2010 appointed by the President of the Czech Republic as President of the Czech Statistical Office with effect from 1 September 2010 |
| from 2007 | J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Rector |
| 2001–2007 | J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Vice-rector on Science and International Relations |
| 1998–2001 | UN Food and Agricultural Organization, Statistics Division, Rome, Italy - regional officer for Europe, countries of the former Soviet Union, China and Mongolia |
| 1993–1998 | Czech Statistical Office, Division Ústí nad Labem, Head of Environmental Statistics Department |
| 1989–1992 | Environmental Institute Ústí nad Labem - scientific and research worker |
| 1988–1988 | Social-Economic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Ústí nad Labem |
Work experience abroad: | |
| 2001–2008 | Lecture visits abroad in France, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Poland, Canada, and Slovakia |
| 2002 | UN Mission - Food security programme in CIS countries, UN FAO consultant (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan) |
| 2001 | UN Mission - Tirana, Albania (Environmental Impact Assessment of the Kosovo Crisis in Albania) |
| 1998–2001 | UN Food and Agricultural Organization, Statistics Division, Rome, Italy - regional officer for Europe, countries of the former Soviet Union, China and Mongolia |
Iva Ritschelová is a member of many advisory bodies of ministries, scientific, art and editorial boards, graduation councils and academic assemblies of universities, colleges and scientific-research institutes. She is an author of more than twenty domestic and foreign monographs, several tenths of scientific and professional papers, textbooks and research studies.