Karel Dyba

Karel Dyba
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the OECD
In office 2007–2012
Preceded by	Jiří Maceška
Succeeded by	Pavel Rozsypal
Minister of the Economy of the Czech Republic
In office 31 October 1992 – 4 July 1996
Preceded by	Ministry established
Succeeded by	Jaromír Schneider
Minister of Economic Policy and Development (within the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic)
In office 2 July 1992 – 31 October 1992
Preceded by	Ministry established
Succeeded by	Ministry disestablished
Minister Without Portfolio of the Czech Republic
In office 29 June 1990 – 2 July 1992
Preceded by	Tomáš Ježek
Succeeded by	Miroslav Grégr
Member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia
In office 6 June 1992 – 31 December 1992
Personal details
Born	(1940-10-21)21 October 1940 Prostějov, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died	22 July 2024(2024-07-22) (aged 83)
Profession	Economist

Karel Dyba (21 October 1940 – 22 July 2024) was a Czech economist, politician and diplomat. He served as a Czech Republic government minister during the 1990s under Prime Ministers Petr Pithart and Václav Klaus. He served the Czech Republic's first Minister of Economy from 1992 until 1996 with the First Cabinet of Václav Klaus and played a key role in the new nation's early economic development. In 1994, he became the first Czech government minister to visit Taiwan.

Dyba was a candidate for the Senate of the Czech Republic in the 1996 Czech parliamentary election for district No. 35 – Jablonec nad Nisou. He won the first round with more than 36 percent of the vote, but was defeated in the second round by František Vízek of the Social Democracy party. Dyba left politics following his election loss in 1996 and worked in the private sector as an investment banking and strategic economics consultant.

In 2007, he was appointed Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a position he held until 2012.

Dyba died on 22 July 2024, at the age of 83.