Robert Mikolas (1966) studied history and literature at the Faculty of Arts of the Jagiellonian University, followed by further studies at Taipei University and the Goethe Institute in Munich. He worked at the Strahov Library of the Royal Canon of the Premonstratensians, TV Prima, and lectured at the University of International and Public Relations. Since 1998 he has been employed by Czech Radio as a foreign correspondent focusing on world conflicts (Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Philippines, Burma, Israel). In 2002-2003 and 2006-2011 he worked as Czech Radio's correspondent for East and Southeast Asia. He has received numerous awards and has twice been nominated for the Journalism Award of the Czech Republic.

He is currently the director of the Czech Centre in Rome.