CERGE-EI is delighted to welcome Professor Michal Kejak as our new director effective on January 1, 2014. Professor Kejak joined the CERGE-EI faculty in 1997 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2007. He has served on CERGE-EI’s Executive and Supervisory Committee and twice been Deputy Director of Research. He was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University in 2010 and has also visited at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

Professor Kejak’s work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and The Economics of Transition.  His research has been supported through numerous competitive grants including from the European Union, the Global Development Network, and the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.

In welcoming Prof. Kejak CERGE-EI is also expressing its gratitude to Prof. Stepan Jurajda, who is stepping down from the role of Director after his four years of visionary leadership.