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Jan Viktor Mládek (7 December 1911 – 7 August 1989) was initially a Czechoslovak, then an American economist of Polish-Czech origin, governor and one of the executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, art collector and patron of Central European art.
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Jan Viktor Mládek (7 December 1911 – 7 August 1989) was initially a Czechoslovak, then an American economist of Polish-Czech origin, governor and one of the executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, art collector and patron of Central European art.
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1911–1948 Jan Viktor Mládek was born into a Czech-Polish family in what was then Austrian-Hungarian Galicia. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the family moved to Prague. After graduating from the Smíchov real gymnasium (now Gymnázium Na Zatlance) he began studying law in Prague and completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, where he obtained his doctorate in law in 1936. He also completed two semesters of medicine, but his deeper interest in economics and philosophy led him to the University of Economics in Prague. He worked briefly in the research department of the National Bank and before the war he left to study with Henri Bergson at the Sorbonne in Paris. In England, he studied at Cambridge University under Bertrand Russell and John M. Keynes, with whom he later worked closely during the war on plans for the post-war financial reconstruction and stabilization of European countries. The outbreak of World War II found Mládek in France, where he enlisted in the French Army as artillery officer. After its defeat and evacuation to England, he was assigned to the Czechoslovak Ministry of Finance in exile in London. Its finance minister, Ladislav Feierabend, tried to persuade…
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1948–1989 After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, Mládek resigned from his position as executive director, requested asylum in United States, and was appointed deputy director of the IMF's Operations Department. At the request of General McArthur, he was sent to Japan to resolve financial problems there and to Yugoslavia to wean its finances off dependence on the Soviet Union. From 1953 to 1959, he was director of the European office and, from 1961, of the newly established African Department. At the request of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, he helped resolve the financial and monetary problems of Southeast Asian countries. From 1964, he headed the IMF's Central Banking Service. In 1955 in Paris, he met Meda Sokolová when she came to ask him for a financial contribution for her publishing house. Shortly thereafter, she divorced her husband, Belgian nobleman Remi Antoine Joseph de Mûelenaer. In 1956 Meda began studying fine arts at L’École du Louvre at the Sorbonne. In the same year, she met František Kupka, who was brought to her attention by Mládek's friend, the famous Parisian antiquarian Jacques Kugel. In 1960, Jan Mládek was called back to the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. and…
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Bibliography Jan V. Mládek: Mezinárodní finanční instituce Bretton-woodské : výklad a stanovy Mezinárodního měnového fondu a Mezinárodní banky pro obnovu a rozvoj / Bretton Woods International Financial Institutions: Interpretation and Statutes of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Published by the Ministry of Finance, Prague 1946 Jan V. Mládek, Světová organisace hospodářství / World Economic Organization, Published by the Czech Economic Society, 1946 Ladislav Karel Feierabend, Soumrak československé demokracie / The Twilight of Czechoslovak Democracy, Afterword by J. V. Mládek, Rozmluvy Vol. 2, Purley 1988