Lenka Rovná

Lenka Rovná is Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam and the bearer of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies at Charles University (the first one in Central/Eastern Europe). She is also Chair of the Department of Western European Studies at Charles University in Prague, where she teaches courses in  European, British, and Canadian Politics.   From 1991 to 1995, she was a visiting Professor at Guelph, Bishop’s and Calgary Universities, Canada. She has also been a representative and a governmental alternate of the Czech Republic at the Convention on the Future of Europe since the summer of 2002. In 2004, she was awarded a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite by the French President, and, in May 2007, the bronze medal for Life Long Learning Jean Monnet Project by the European Commission and the Minister of Education of Germany. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the University of Western Bohemia, and the University of Helsinki. The author of several books including Prime Minister of Her Majesty: A Decade of Thatcherism in Great Britain(1990), The History of Canada  (2000), and  Who Governs Britain? (2004), Rovná has also penned essays on Czech politics in numerous anthologies.