Czech Republic

Mr. Tichy was accredited by the State Department as the Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic in Salt Lake City in 2009. He was formally installed on May 10, 2010 at a ceremony at the Utah State Capitol. He is currently the president of Envoy Legal & Consulting International, a firm that specializes in international legal and governmental relations matters. He also serves as outside international legal and governmental relations counsel to the Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-day Saints and as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University. In the course of his professional duties he has personally met with hundreds of foreign government leaders and over two dozen presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers. He is certified native/near-native fluent in both the Czech and Slovak languages and even has conversational fluency in the Hawaiian language. He spent over seven years living and working abroad in significant business, legal, academic, and governmental capacities. In the late 1990s he received a special diplomatic appointment by President Bill Clinton to work at the U.S. Embassy in Prague. He also worked closely with then Secretary of State Madeline Albright, accompanying her during official visits to several overseas locations. For his outstanding work there, he was awarded the State Department’s prestigious Meritorious Honor Medal. In 2011, he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Brigham Young University. He served for several years as Executive Vice-President of the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy, and is currently on the board and executive committee of the Salt Lake Film Society, the Wallace Toronto Foundation, Global Slovakia, and the Czech & Slovak School of Utah.