Robert Řehák, Ph.D. is Special Envoy for Holocaust, Interfaith Dialogue and Freedom of Religion, Czech career diplomat, Head of the Czech Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Chari of the of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance (IRFBA) or the Article 18 Alliance, published scholar of biblical proper names and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and official Hebrew interpreter. He studied at Charles University in Prague, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

He served as Deputy Spokesperson of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2018- 2019), Cultural Attaché at the Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C. (2012-2016), Cultural and Press Attaché at the Czech Embassy in Israel (2005-2009), President of the Society of Christians and Jews in the Czech Republic (2000-2005), and General Secretary of the Center for Biblical Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2002). In recent years, he has worked with young people and lectured in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, is an external lecturer at New York University in Prague, Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Academy and since 2019 Ambassador at large.

As a researcher, he participates in several international research projects in the field of interfaith dialogue and sociology of religion. He is the initiator of the new Czech National Strategy of Combating anti-Semitism and co-ordinated the recent conference on the Terezín Declaration and the 2023 FoRB Ministerial in Prague. He is proficient in Czech, English, Hebrew, German and Russian, and reads classical Latin, Greek and Arabic. He lives in Prague with his wife and four children.