Dana Drábová

Dana Drábová (3 June 1961 – 6 October 2025) was a Czech physicist and politician. She was the chair of the State Office for Nuclear Safety from 1999 to 2025, and served as President of the 2023 meetings of the parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety.

Life and career Drábová was born in Prague on 3 June 1961. She went to school in Říčany, before studying at the Czech Technical University in Prague. She studied at their Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering,

She was the chairwoman of the .

The businessman Michal Horáček stood to be President of the Czech Republic. He announced his advisers in February 2017, including former Slovak presidential candidate Magdaléna Vášáryová, Dana Drábová, and surgeon Pavel Pafko.

In 2018 she was on the board of the think tank Institute of Modern Politics iSTAR.

In 2023 she announced that the six Czech nuclear reactor units would be looking for an alternative supplier for its nuclear fuel.

She was President of the 8th and 9th joint meetings of the parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety in March 2023.

Drábová died after a serious illness on 6 October 2025, at the age of 64.

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