Lukáš Wagenknecht

Lukáš Wagenknecht (born 24 September 1978) is a Czech economist, auditor and politician who served as a Senator of the Czech Republic representing Prague 8 district from October 2018 to October 2024. He was a member of the Czech Pirate Party from 2019 to 2025. In 2026 he became the leader of JSME TEAM. In 2015, he received the Prize for Courage for whistleblowing from the Anticorruption Endowment foundation. and since January 2018, he is a contributor to Neovlivní.cz, a publisher of investigative journalism.

Senator Wagenknecht was elected a Member of the Senate of the Czech Republic for the Czech Pirate Party in the 2018 election. In October 2019, Wagenknecht "launched legal action at the European Court of Justice after the European Council failed to respond to his concerns about the alleged conflict of interest" of the acting Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babiš. Wagenknecht also investigated the alleged subsidy fraud of Prime Minister Babiš.