Andrej Babiš
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Czech Republic
Andrej Babiš obtained his degree at the University of Economics in Bratislava, with his studies focusing on international trade. He began his career as a trader for the Chemapol company in Bratislava and later continued on the Petrimex company. In 1993, he established his own company, Agrofert, which is now an international conglomerate with more than 250 subsidiaries in several industries: chemical, agriculture, food processing, forestry and timbering, ground-technologies, technology and transportation, renewable energy sources and media. Since 2011, he has been the chairman of the ANO political movement, which gained the second largest amount of votes in the 2013 parliamentary elections.