Petr Mach

Petr Mach (b. May 6, 1975 in Prague) is a Czech economist and the leader of the Free Citizens Party.

Mach was chairman of the Young Conservatives, the Civic Democratic Party's youth wing, in 1997. Petr Mach earned a PhD from the University of Economics, Prague, Department of Monetary Theory and Policy in 2003.

Mach worked as an executive director of the Center for Economics and Politics in Prague from 1999 to 2009 and as an external economic advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus from 2003 to 2007, with whom he shares enthusiasm for the free market economy and euroscepticism. Since 1998 he is the publisher and editor of the Laissez-Faire newsletter.