Dr. Roman Joch is the Executive Director of the Civic Institute, a conservative think-tank in Prague, the Czech Republic.

Roman Joch (1971) had graduated M.D. at the Charles University in Prague in 1996. He worked as a fellow of the Civic Institute (in Czech: Občanský institut) sice 1996; and has become the Executive Director of the Civic Institute in September 2003.

Roman Joch lectures, comments and publishes on political philosophy, international relations and national security issues. Roman Joch is author of a booklet American Foreign Policy and the Role of the U.S. in the World (Prague, 2000) and of two books (both published in Prague in 2003): Why Iraq? The Causes and Consequences of the Conflict, and The Revolt against the Revolution of the Twentieth Century (a treatise on the political thought of Frank S. Meyer, an American libertarian–conservative thinker, former senior editor of National Review). He is a co-author (together with Hynek Fajmon, MEP) of a booklet Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (2010).

Roman Joch was appointed a member of the Academic Council of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006 for a 4-years term, and was a member of an Advisory Council of Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra, dealing with the Czech Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2009.

Most recently, Roman Joch served as an adviser to the Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas on human rights and foreign policy since September 2010 till October 2012.