Vladimir Dlouhy is a graduate of the Prague University of Economics (mathematical economics and econometrics) and of Charles University in Prague (a postgraduate studies of mathematical statistics and probability). He also studied MBA at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1978-79. A former Minister of Economy of the Czechoslovak Republic and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, he served as President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic from 2014 to 2023. As of March 2023, he is President of Eurochambres, the European Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. At the same time, he works for several foreign and Czech companies (Meridiam Infrastructure France, Medha Corporation India, ColtCZ and others). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Czech Technical University and member of the Trilateral Commission.
Previously, he worked for twenty-five years as an international advisor to the investment bank Goldman Sachs, from 1997-2011 he was also an advisor to ABB, and from 2013-2018 he worked in the same capacity for Rolls Royce. He served as an advisor to the Management Director of IMF from 2009-2013 and was also a member of several National Economic Councils of the Czech Government. For more than ten years he was a member of the International Board of Overseers at the Illinois Institute of Technology and more than two decades he was a university lecturer (macroeconomics and economic policy) at Charles University in Prague.