Iva Ritschelová

Iva Ritschelová (16 July 1964 – 2 December 2017) was a Czech economist and academic who served as chair of the central state statistical administration body Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) from 2010 to 2017. She had previously worked at the CZSO at its Ústí nad Labem branch in its Department of Environmental Statistics as well as the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Statistical Division of the United Nations' (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization. Ritschelová was also vice-rector and later rector of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.

Early life On 16 July 1964, Ritschelová was born in Varnsdorf. She was brought up in Varnsdorf did her basic schooling there. Following Ritschelová's graduation from the Rumburk Grammar School, she enrolled at the Technical University of Liberec and studied Consumer Industry Economics. She was assisted by Jiří Madar, the Deputy Mayor of Ústí nad Labem. The result of which lowered the overall workload for statistical surveys by 35 per cent.

Personal life She was married and has two children. On the late evening of 2 December 2017, Ritschelová died from a severe illness.

Legacy Honorary citizenship of Varnsdorf was posthumously granted to Ritschelová by Varnsdorf City Council in September 2019.