Lubomír Zaorálek has been the president of the social-democratic think-tank Masaryk Democratic Academy since 2008, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague since 2022. During his political career served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and then as Minister of Culture in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Babis from 2019 to 2021. He was also a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2021.