User:Mikulkamik1/Ondřej Krutílek

Ondřej Krutílek (* 30 April 1981 Nový Jičín) is a Czech politician, analyst, political scientist, and university teacher, Member of the European Parliament since 2024, member of the ODS.

Life
He attended elementary school in Hodslavice and later in Nový Jičín, then studied at the Masaryk Grammar School in Příbor. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University, majoring in political science, international relations, and European studies.

In 2004, he joined the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Culture as an analyst of European legislation. He also became an assistant in the European Parliament. First, he worked for Hynek Fajmon, then for Ivo Strejček (both ODS).

In 2013, he became a partner and managing director of the analytical and consulting company B&P Research, and two years later he became director of the European Information Project Institute.

In 2016 he was appointed vice-chair of the executive board of the Right Bank association, which supports the policies of Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. He lectures at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University.

Ondřej Krutílek lives in Brno and is the father of three sons.

Political activities
In 2019, he stood as a non-party candidate for ODS in the European Parliament elections. He was 4th on the list. The party won four seats, but due to the influence of almost 30,000 preferential votes, Alexandr Vondra, running from 15th place, pushed Krutílek down the list of unsuccessful candidates. Krutílek then became the director of Vondra's office and joined the ODS in the autumn of 2019.

In the European Parliament elections in June 2024, he ran as a member of the ODS on the 5th place of the candidate list of the SPOLU coalition (i.e. ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09). He received 20 504 preferential votes and thus became a new MEP.