Olga Richterová


Olga Richterová is a Czech linguist, translator and a politician. Richterová is the vice-chairwoman of the Czech Pirate Party since January 2018 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since the 2017 legislative election.

Life and career

Richterová was born on 21 January 1985 in České Budějovice in southern Bohemia and grew up in the village of Choltice in central Czech Republic. She studied linguistics, English and German translation at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Richterová joined the Czech Pirate Party in 2014 and has been a council member of Prague 10 district in 2014 to 2018 prior to being elected Deputy of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the 2017 legislative election. Her political agenda has been housing legislation, social policy and urban planning policy. She serves as the vice-chairwoman of the parliamentary Committee on Social Policy from 19 December 2017.
She was elected vice-chairwoman of the party in January 2018. In January 2020, she was re-elected as party vice-chairwoman.

Personal life

Richterová is a member of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, is married and has two children.