Alena Schillerová

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Alena Schillerová is a Czech lawyer, manager and politician. From 2017 to 2021, she was Finance Minister of the Czech Republic and one of only three finance ministers in post-Soviet history to achieve a budget surplus. Prior to her political career, she worked as an expert deputy for taxes and customs, being responsible for, among other things, the successful implementation of the electronic sales registration project; she has held various senior management positions in Financial Administration.

Alena Schillerová is married, has a daughter and a son and lives alternately in Brno and Prague. Her hobbies are her family, especially her grandchildren, long walks, gardening, performing arts, literature and social networking.

Personal data

JUDr. Alena Schillerová, Ph.D., born 18 March 1964

Education

1997-2000: Ph. D. - Administrative Law - Administrative and Agricultural and Cooperative Law, Masaryk University in Brno

1982-1988: JUDr. - Law, Masaryk University in Brno

Professional and public activities

2025-present: member of the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

2025-present: vice-chair of the ANO 2011 parliamentary club

2023-2025: member of the Subcommittee for proposals for the granting or conferring of state

 decorations

2022-2025: vice-chair of the Budget Committee

2022-2025: member of the Organising Committee

2022-2025: member of the Constitutional Law Committee

2022-2025: member of the Subcommittee on Justice

2021-2025: chair of the ANO 2011 parliamentary club

2021-present: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

2019-2021: Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

2017-2021: Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic

2016-2017: Deputy Minister of Finance for taxes and customs

2014-2015: director of the Legal and Tax Process Department of the General Financial   

Directorate

2013-2014: deputy director and head of the Tax Methodology and Enforcement Department of the Tax Office   

for the South Moravian Region

2006-2012: director of the Brno-venkov Tax Office

1995-2006: deputy director of the Brno-venkov Tax Office

1994-1994: head of the Legal and Enforcement Department of the Brno-venkov Tax Office

1991-1994: lawyer at the Brno-venkov Tax Office