Petr Mucha

Currently Petr Mucha serves as an Interfaith Dialogue Project coordinator for the Forum 2000 Foundation, which organizes annual international conferences under the auspices of Václav Havel. He also works as a lecturer in various educational institutions.

After completing his graduate studies in Geography and Religious Studies at Charles University in 1994, Mucha served as a director of a nonprofit educational organization and taught at universities in Prague and Hradec Králové. During that period he studied sociology and philosophy and undertook internships at various institutions in USA, Great Britain, France and Malta. Later, throughout his PhD studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University he spent several years in Canada as a visiting scholar and lecturer at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

During communism in the late 1980s, Mucha became actively involved in underground activities and in the student revolt during the Velvet Revolution in 1989.