Jan Souček has been elected as the new Director General of Czech Television and took up the position on 1 October 2023. He will serve for a six-year period.

Jan Souček started his career in the media in the early 1990s as a news editor at TV Nova. From 1996, he worked as a freelance news editor at Czech Television before becoming editor-in-chief of the newsroom at Czech Radio Brno. In 2005, he returned to Czech Television where he worked as a chief dramaturg and presenter. From 2012 to 2014, he held the position of editor for Czech Radio and since 2014 worked as the Director of the regional television studio in Brno.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, where he also worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Studies.