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Zdeněk Tůma is a Czech
Czech Republic
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 economist
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 and a former Governor of the Czech National Bank
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 since 1 December 2000. He was confirmed by President
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 Václav Klaus
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 for another six-year term on 11 February 2005. Tůma resigns as of 30 June 2010. Previously he was Vice Governor of the Bank
Czech National Bank
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 from 13 February 1999 to 30 November 2000.

Tůma is a graduate of the Faculty of Trade at the University of Economics, Prague
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. Then he joined Institute for Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as a researcher
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. From 1993 to 1995 he was an advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade. Before joining the Czech National Bank
Czech National Bank
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 he held a position in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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.

According to iHNed.cz
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 Tůma's salary was $
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220,000.

He is a TOP 09 party nominee for the Mayor
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 office of the Czech capital Prague
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 in Czech local elections (October 2010). Though TOP 09 won the most number of votes, they were unable to form a coalition with any other parties. The second- and third-place parties (ODS and ČSSD) instead made a coalition and Bohuslav Svoboda was elected Mayor by the City Council on 06 December 2010.

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