Institute of Economic Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Charles University

Since graduating from IES, Vojtěch Mišák worked until June 2020 at the startup EquiRadar, where he focused on predicting the sport performance of park horses. Unfortunately, the coronal crisis dealt this business a severe blow from which the company has not recovered. Since October 2020 Vojtěch has been studying at IES as a PhD student and working as a junior researcher. As he was studying at the same time at the IES and at the law school, his dissertation concerns the economic analysis of crime. He has also completed a semester study visit in Coimbra, Portugal and an internship at the European Parliament in 2018.

Patricia Pavlíková currently works at Quintet Private Bankers in Luxembourg, where she joined the graduate programme in autumn 2019. She started working in Luxembourg after completing the winter semester in Strasbourg as part of the CSF double degree programme. During the summer semester, she got an internship at BIL Bank Luxembourg and since she liked it, she decided to stay. Before that, she gained work experience in Prague as a consultant-analyst at Roedl and Partner NG or junior accountant at Edwards Lifesciences. 

Roman Kalabiška works a year after graduating from the IES as an analyst at the National Budget Council, where he is responsible for fiscal analysis of pension and health care systems and studies of municipal budgets. He also continues with his doctoral studies at IES, leading, among other things, seminars on bachelor's macroeconomics. Immediately after completing his master's degree, he joined ČSOB as a financial analyst in controling, where he was in charge of data preparation for the reports. During his studies at the IES, he spent two semesters abroad, one in Sweden and the other in New Zealand. During his studies, he also worked at APS in accounting, tutored mathematics and also worked as a "buddy" at the International Club UK. In his free time, Roman enjoys family, travel and reading.

 Martin Kopeček works a year after graduating from the IES as an advisor to the Deputy in the Financial Management and Audit Section at the Ministry of Finance. He has been working at the ministry for six years. Prior to that, he worked as a data management Analyst at ČSOB. Martin has won a number of awards for his work with data: 2nd place eGovernment THE BEST 2017 and Otakar Motejl Fund Award for CityVizor, Open in the Open/Closed competition for long-term contribution to open data and 1st place in the European Sharing and Reuse Awards 2017 for Supervisor application. In his free time, he also enjoys time with his group of Scouts, is a member of a rock band and enjoys cycling.

Thibault Parreau currently works as a Business Development Manager at Auto1 Group in Berlin Germany. He started here in October 2019. Before that he managed to pass a traineeship at Comtravo as a Business Development Intern also in Berlin. He was a student of a Master’s double-degree program in corporate strategy and finance with Sciences Po Strasbourg and Charles University in Prague and he finished his Bachelor in French Anger. During his studies at the IES Thibault worked also as a Market Analyst Intern at SAP Concur or Project Financial Analyst at Accenture. In Angers, he also passed an internship in corporate finance at Banque Populaire Atlantique. In his free time Thibault enjoys reading about new technologies, likes cycling and running, cooking and learning new languages (currently he studies German).

Lucie Častorálová works one year after finishing her master's degree at the IES at EY, as a senior consultant. She works at EY for almost four years, and she focuses mainly on energy. First she joined the company as an intern, later became consultant, now she is senior consultant. She also gained experience in other consulting companies, such as Accenture as an assistant. She also worked as an intern at Cross Masters. Even before studying at the IES, she helped with accounting at Compre. She also passed studies with the Erasmus program in Luxembourg, but also spent a semester at McGill University in Monteral, Canada. In her free time, Lucie enjoys sports and traveling.

One year after completing her master's degree, Emma Haas works at ČSOB in the credit risk modeling department. She started to work at ČSOB in the last year of her master's degree. Emma also continues her doctoral studies at the IES, where she specializes on Financial Economics and Applied Econometrics and works as an assistant professor of Financial Markets lectures. In her free time, she enjoys sports and family.

Thanh-Tu Nguyen is currently the Senior Valuer at Cushman & Wakefield Czech Republic. She has been working there for more than 5 years starting from an entry-level position. She finished her Master’s at IES with a second degree from partner university Sciences Po in Strasbourg thanks to the „double degree“ program. Her valedictorian speech encouraged fellow graduates to “use your power for good” by speaking out for better environmental protection (against the overuse of plastic) and for gender equality (against the pay gap). Previously she graduated from Czech University of Life Sciences with a Rector’s Award as the highest-ranking student. Throughout her studies, she gained work experience not only at C&W but also by being a sales executive at Southwestern Advantage in the U.S., by tutoring students, by joining several tech start-ups, by working for a Vietnamese bank planning to enter the Czech market, etc. She has received a number of scholarships and awards during her studies.
Since 2018 she teaches Real Estate Valuation at European Center for Career Education. She joins the public speaking club Good Morning Toastmasters Prague in 2019. Her free time is devoted to her workplace’s environmental initiative, to AVSE Global’s advisory projects (Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts, based in Paris), and to charity fund "Only rice is not enough" fighting against malnutrition of children in Vietnam’s mountainous areas. When she has some time off she likes meeting friends and inspiring people, practicing aikido, sightseeing, and trying more ways to achieve zero-waste lifestyle.

 One year after graduating from the IES, Martin Stárek works as a data analyst at the media company GroupM. He focuses on optimizing online advertising campaigns. Both of his theses, bachelor's and master's, were generally about improving methodologies for working with data, and he continues to do so in this work. He was offered the position after spending a year as a Research Specialist at GroupM's subsidiary, Mindshare. Among other things, he developed tools for the automatic processing of marketing data. He joined Mindshare immediately after finishing his master's thesis as the first full-time position. In his free time, he travels and learns new technologies.

Šárka Křížková joined Deloitte Advisory as an Intern in Consulting at the last year at the IES, and she started in the Finance Transformation team. After finishing her studies, she continued with the same team as Consultant (Business Analyst) and that has not changed her position since then. Prior to that, she worked for more than a year as a collection inspector at VZP, and she got this job after the period at a trainee position. In addition, Šárka attended University of Politecnica delle Marche for a semester during her master’s studies in Italy, and she spent another semester in Italy at the University of Padua during her bachelo's degree. In addition, Šárka managed to work as a volunteer in a group helping people with autism, or as a “buddy” at the International Club of Charles University.

Marek Lipán works as a Data Scientist at DataSentics one year after graduating from the IES. There he focuses mainly on computer vision and deep learning projects. He has been focusing on these areas already during his studies. He received Deloitte Outstanding Thesis Award for his master thesis Artificial Prediction Markets, Forecast Combinations and Classical Time Series. He has worked for almost three years as a Credit risk analyst at Komerční banka during his studies. Prior to his studies at the IES, he spent a year at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, studying general mathematics. Marek likes to spend his free time in the company of his friends by for example sports and playing board games.

After her graduation, Daniela Moisei started an internship at the European Commission. During 5 months, she assisted the team responsible for finance, budget and controls within DG SANTE (Health and Food Safety) in the internal control process. As a result of this experience, she got the opportunity to continue working as Internal Audit Assistant in the same team. At the moment, she is responsible for the design, coordination and reporting on the internal control action plan in DG SANTE, and for the cooperation with the Court of Auditors. She is also involved in the ex-post control missions, checking the good implementation of the Health and Food safety programs in the EU Member States. Daniela started her working experience already during her studies, at ADP in Prague as a payroll and tax associate, and in 2017, she passed another internship at the Council of Europe, in the Treasury and Revenue section. Before her studies at the IES, she gained another Masters from the Academy of Economic Studies in Moldova. Daniela worked at this time as a trainee in the Department of Foreign Exchange Operations and External Relations at the National Bank of Moldova. Besides that, she was also a radio presenter for more than 4 years at Radio Moldova. In her free time, Daniela likes travelling, reading, swimming and dancing.

Borche Rolevski moved to the USA before he finished his Master studies at the IES and while working on his thesis he was employed by a Fintech company Broadrige in Boston. He has worked there since December 2017 as a Senior Business Analyst. As part of the Capital Markets team Borche works on a software implementation projects for global financial institutions where the knowledge gained during the studies at IES is greatly utilized. While studying in Prague, he also gained experience at DXC Technology (formerly known as CSC), as Inter-company accountant. Before the MEF studies at the IES, Borche obtained his Bachelor at the Faculty of Economics – Skopje, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius. Borche loves skiing, enjoys running and sometimes practice yoga.

One year after graduating from the IES, Michal Topinka worked as a portfolio manager at TRZ Funds in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He started to work at this position after a trainee position in the same company, where he began immediately after graduating. Along with the IES, he completed a one-year master's degree at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to that, he worked as a data analyst at the BNP Paribas office in Prague, or he did an internship at Microsoft. During his master’s studies he spent one semester as an exchange student at Peking University HSBC Business School and with the Erasmus program one semester at Université Paris-Dauphine. In his free time, Michal enjoys sports, reading and travelling.
 

One year after finishing his studies at the IES Pavel Fišer works at MSD. He joined the company during his studies, initially working as an Intern – at first as a reporting support in Project Management, later as a Data Scientist. After his graduation he was hired for full time position as a Data Scientist. He is currently co-operating with American team focusing on Modeling and Simulation in vaccine development process. He is developing method for more accurate estimation of vaccine efficacy which contributes to faster and more effective vaccine development which eventually speed up the drug delivery to the market. In addition, Pavel in cooperation with Jožo Baruník wrote the publication "Co-jumping of treasury yield curve rates" this year. In his free time Pavel enjoys climbing, squash, mountain biking and travelling.

Gladiola Gjuzi currently works as a Portfolio Manager Junior at Asset Management Department in J&T Banka. During her studies she have been pursuing a few internships e.g. at BKT - Banka Kombetare Tregtare in Albania, at Bank Asya, in Turkey and from her point of view the most valuable one, in Central Bank of Albania at Internal Audit Department. Then when coming to her Czech studies she started to work firstly as a General Ledger Accountant and then as a Pricing Analyst in DXC Technology in Prague. In her free time she volunteers for CFA Czech Republic Society.After her graduation she decided to continue living and working in Prague. Before the IES, Gladiola attended Epoka University in Albania, where she gained her Bachelor degree. In her free time she enjoys hiking in nature, reading, dancing and spending time with family and friends.

Petr Hanzlík studies his PhD at the IES and students can meet him as a teaching assistant of Financial Economics, Banking or Banking and Financial Regulation. He also works at ČSOB in the Group Controlling and Investor Relations department, where he is responsible for preparing quarterly presentation of the bank's financial results, prepares parts of yearly reports, and is responsible for completing and publishing information according to the directives. He has been working in this position since August 2018. Before that, he worked for a year as a part-time employee in the Retail Controlling department, where he worked in the Group Client project in the field of retail client portfolio reporting. In his free time, Petr likes to relax on walks in the countryside, or at least through the parks of Prague, and he also enjoys learning and developing his knowledge and skills in banking, or enjoys precious moments with his four nephews.

Robert Kaplan has been working since the beginning of 2019 as a Senior Consultant in the London-Prague based team of EY, which specializes in corporate financial restructuring. He seeks heavily indebted European companies with a debt in the amount of at least hundred million euros and tries to find a solution for them in the form of a long-term sustainable capital structure, which he then negotiates and implements. Prior to this position he spent two and a half years in the Business Recovery team of PwC, working on well-known operational restructurings and insolvencies in the Czech Republic. While studying, he did a one year internship at Wood & Company as an equity analyst. During his master's degree Robert spent one semester at Higher School of Economics in Moscow and one at Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. In the meantime, he has passed two CFA exams. Robert does not have much spare time, but when he does, he is doing sports or participates in military training of Czech Army Active Reserves of the 43rd Airborne Battalion during his annual leave three to four weeks a year.

Amálka Počarovská currently works as an Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Finance and Audit at the Ministry of Finance. She has worked at the Ministry for the five years and until February worked in Brussels in the European Commission, where she was nominated by the Ministry within the framework of the National Experts in Professional Training program. She focused on public procurement and the indication of fraud and corruption. She previously worked at the Department of Central Harmonisation Unit at the Ministry. After her graduation, she started to actively participate in civil society of Prague 1, where she co-founded the Prague Independent Candidates Association Praha 1 Sobě and was responsible for the election campaign. They were successful in autumn communal elections in Prague 1 and Amálka became the Representative in November 2018. She was appointed chairman of the Finance Committee, which opposes the municipal budget of nearly a billion. In her free time she is keen into the local politics, likes organising parties and cooking.

Lenka Röhryová is co-founder of a digital health startup Vitadio, which digitize therapeutic care for diabetes patients. In Germany, they have recently been accepted as one of the 5 European companies for the softlanding in the German market. Lenka had previously worked at Mylan and Abbott as an analyst and spent about one year at each position while studying. Previously, she also taught mathematics and English while studying. In addition to her Master at the IES, Lenka studied at Rotterdam School of Management, where she also reached Master's degree. In her free time, Lenka likes climbing, hiking and playing piano.

Jan Šíla is working at a machine learning startup SmartEE where he is developing a computer vision application called Searpent, which identifies frauds in the car insurance industry. At the same time, he is working at another startup called Soulution. He is the Lead developer, and a Co-founder, of this software boutique. Under the supervision of Ladislav Krištoufek, he is also studying PhD at the IES. During his previous studies he was a freelancer, working on several projects together with Navidator.com. He also worked for a year as a junior financial analyst at Roklen Fin. In addition to a master's degree from the IES, he gained a master's degree from financial mathematics from Leicester University. He also tutored mathematics during his studies there. Honza likes to play ice hockey or follow Ido Portal Method exercises under Petr Ruzicka.

Jaromír Šimáně currently works at KBC Bank in Brussels in the Treasury Department. He is responsible for the valuation of loans and borrowings, the financial risks of the bank; and when the position is not perfect, he buys the necessary financial instruments. Before that Jaromír worked at ČSOB on a similar position. During his studies he spent a semester at Umeå University and taught statistics for sociologists at the Institute of Sociological Studies at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. In addition to working at KBC Bank, he occasionally teaches ALM management in Antwerp and Hasselt. Jaromír continues his education preparing for CFA exams. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, hiking and other outdoor activities.

A year after graduating from the IES, Josef Záhlava is working as a Scoring and Risk Management Analyst at Moneta. He is responsible for all lifetime phases of scoring models. Besides that, he participates in development of other risk management models. At the same time he lectures at the FSS subjects such as Introductory Statistics and Introduction to Logic and Mathematics. He has started working at both positions during his studies at the IES. Josef previously worked as a Data Scientist at ČSOB. He also passed an internship in Česká spořitelna and worked as a Data Analyst at MSD and Rohlik.cz. During his master's studies he spent a semester at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. In his free time Josef plays the piano and he likes sports, especially football.

Arun Derunduli comes from India and graduated from Bachelor's Degree at Amity University. Then he decided to get Master's degree in the Czech Republic. Currently, Arun continues his studies at IES in PhD programme while working. During his studies, he has gained work experience as a volunteer at Make a Difference and as a Summer Intern at Hyderabad at the Center for Economic and Sociological Studies. In January 2018, he began his working career at SAP as a Finance Operation Associate. He is joining Moody's as an Associate Economist in February.

Dominika Kolcunová works one year after finishing her studies at the IES at the CNB as a Junior Research Specialist, where she focuses on applied research in the financial stability. At the same time, she continues her PhD studies under the supervision of doc. Tomáš Havránek, where she focuses on meta-analysis and also teaches Macroeconomics and Advanced Data Analysis in MS Excel at the Bachelor's degree. She presented her research at conferences in Melbourne, Barcelona and Rome. During her studies, Dominika spent a semester in Spain at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She started with her work experience as a trainee at Controlling department at Raiffeisenbank. Her diploma thesis was awarded with the Karel Englis Prize by the Czech Economic Society for the best paper related to Czech economic policy. In her free time, she likes hiking in mountains, traveling and dancing.

Tomáš Juchelka graduated from the IES in September 2017, but started his first work experience at high school. Starting with Komercni banka's investment banking internships, through analyst work at company VICF, he continued into the fines of the launch of Roklen, where he participated in the foundation and development of the equity-crowdfunding platform fundlift.cz. In the last year of his Master's degree he founded Bohemian Technologies, which is engaged in the development and implementation of technology solutions to financial institutions. The main products of Bohemian Technologies include, for example, RoboAdvisory, a technology platform that algorithms automate asset management for retail investors. With this technology, banks can offer discrete asset management, which was previously only available to affluent clients, to a wide range of clients with very low minimum investment. In his spare time Tomáš does the sports, reads and rides his motorbike.

Václav Brož is currently working at Czech National Bank. He started to work there already in the last semester of his Master's on a junior position of a Researcher in the Financial Stability Section. Recently he became an Analyst and focuses on macro prudential policy. Václav also studies his first year of doctoral studies at the IES and he teaches macroeconomics and financial markets here. Since 2016 he has been a Research Assistant to Professor Evžen Kočenda. In addition to the IES, Václav passed a semester at the University of Amsterdam and also worked at the state Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation EGAP. As a student he volunteered at a consultancy position at 180 Degrees Consulting. Václav also won the first place in the Bachelor Thesis category of the Energy Economics Contest 2015. In his spare time, he likes cycling and jogging, following films and music trends, or is interested in current political and social events.

Edita Ďurovčíková joined KPMG a few months after finishing her IES studies. She works there at the position of a Business Analyst in Risk Consulting. Prior to that, she gained experience, for example, as a Junior Financial Analyst at Raiffeisenbank or as a research assistant for PhD students at the IES. She was also a member of a student project team at Rolland and Berger Strategy Consultants. Moreover, Edita passed a study stay in Belgium at the Ichec Brussels Management School. In her spare time, Edita likes to sing, she has even attended a popular singing course at the Prague Conservatoire. She also likes German and Spanish language and traveling.

Aleksa Radosavčević comes from Serbia and he started his studies at the IES after graduating at the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac. During and after his graduation at the IES, Aleksa spent over two years working for a Swiss based fintech start-up Fundbase. His position was Hedge Fund Quant Analyst, while his main task was navigating development of AI guided portfolio construction and risk management tools, by implementing large portion of his MA thesis research. A year after finishing his studies at the IES, Aleksa was hired by London based start-up - causaLens for the position Quantitative Researcher, where he started to work this June. He aims to help the company to build an automated machine learning tool for time series predictions, while he will focus on client models development. In 2011 Aleksa spent one year in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he was part of the Erasmus exchange program. Aleksa uses his free time for visiting family and friends, doing sports and having fun.

Petr Kupka currently works as an Assistant in the audit department at the PricewaterhouseCoopers AG in canton Zug, Switzerland. He started on this position in October 2017. Before that,he had worked for six months as an audit trainee at PwC Deutschland in Munich. In Munich, he has also passed a three-month internship in Strategic Controlling department at Westwing Home & Living. At PwC he also worked in the Czech Republic, as a trainee also focused on audit issues. During his bachelor studies at the IES, Petr began to gain experience as a trainee at Makro Cash & Carry CR. During his masters he moved to Netherland, where he spent one semester under the Erasmus program at the University of Amsterdam. Among Peter's achievements is the final round in KPMG International Case Competition Czech Republic. In his free time Peter plays football, does mountain biking or improves German with his friends while enjoying a glass of beer.

Tomáš Václavíček currently works in Brussels as a Financial Economist at DG FISMA at European Commission. He focuses on the analysis of economic data for impact assessment of proposals within the Capital Markets Union project. Before that he worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey or as an Intern at Strategic Department of CSOB. He joined the European Commission thanks to passing the Blue Book traineeship in DG FISMA at EC. Besides the IES studies Tomáš graduated from the University of Economics in Prague. He also passed a study stay at the City University of Hong Kong. Tomáš represented Charles University in an international round of the CFA Research Challenge competition and his team won the competition SolveIt organized by McKinsey. In his free time, Tomáš is interested in photography and visiting exotic places like Mexico, Egypt or India. He visited all these mentioned thanks to his volunteer activity for the student organization AISEC.

Valeri Covalenco currently works at UPS. Valeriu comes from Moldova, where he completed his Bachelor’s studies. Then he continued his studies at the IES. Right after the graduation at the IES Valeri started to work at Atlas Copco as an Accountant, however from this January (2018) he moved to UPS to the position of Financial Analyst. During his studies, he gained experience at CSC as an Accounting Professional, did an Internship at AISEC in Milan, Italy, and at EVM Consulting as a Finance department coordinator in Chisinau, Moldova. In his free time, Valeri enjoys volleyball and board games.

Michal Palas continues with his studies one year after finishing the IES. He is a PhD student at the Vienna Graduate School of Economics, which is part of the University of Vienna. At the same university, Michal is employed as pre-Doc. In his research, Michal focuses on macroeconomic theory, business cycle, and mainly on the role of uncertainty and confidence. Michal spends his leisure time mainly doing sports. While studying at IES he worked as a volleyball coach.

Karel Pfeffer works as a Corporate Sales Finance Manager for the Central Europe at Procter & Gamble, the world's largest fast-moving consumer company. He is responsible for the process of approving investments and introducing automatisation and development of business intelligence solutions. He joined P&G during his studies as Sales Finance trainee. Previously, he worked as a Junior researcher in Millward Brown or in the non-profit organization People in Need as Finance Desk Officer for Syria and Iraq. Karel passed a study stay at the Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich. He also had the opportunity to travel to India where he conducted his research focusing on behavioral economics. In his free time, he does the triathlon and trains with the Etriatlon racing team.

Petr Pařízek works one year after graduating from the IES at the Boston Consulting Group as an Associate. He joined the company after the end of his studies and he focuses mainly on the area of technologies and digitalizatios. In BCG, he also passed an internship as a Visiting Associate. Besides he works at his own company – software start-up in the area of HR management and shift scheduling. During his IES studies, Petr also passed a study stay at the London Metropolitan University in the UK.
Petr travels a lot, both related and not-related to his work (in the last year he visited 12 countries) and he enjoys his free time by playing the guitar and doing sports – skiing, kayak, tennis, gym and swimming.

Jana Urbankova works one year after graduating from IES at the Czech National Bank, where she works as a portfolio manager in the Foreign Reserve Management Division. During her studies she worked as a macroeconomic analyst at Česká spořitelna and also completed a six-month internship at the European Central Bank. As a trainee she also worked for Eduard Kozušník, Member of the European Parliament. In addition to IES, he also earned a Master's degree in Financial Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam and also completed an Erasmus study stay at the university of Belgian Leuven. In her spare time, Jan likes hiking, yoga or jogging in nature.

Jan Hubík works one year after graduating from the IES as a freelance Blockchain Expert and Data Scientist. He focuses on potential use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies for financial and insurance sectors. Another area of his interest is the use of neural networks for artificial inteligence. Jan has devoted himself to these topics early during his studies. He is a Supervisory Board member of the non-profit organization Paralelní Polis, where he currently represents the Institute of Cryptoanarchy. As a technological enthusiast, he is one of the first people in the Czech Republic to have an implanted chip under his skin. Jan also participated for 3 years in a research as a Physicist at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at CTU. Jan graduated from his bachelor studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, and in addition to the IES, he also finished MBA at City University of Seattle. In his free time he likes travelling, photography, swimming and skiing.

A year after finishing his studies at IES, Nicholas Tyack is beginning his second year of Ph.D. studies in Development Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Nicholas grew up in Massachusetts in the U.S., and graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Pomona College (in California) prior to his Masters in Prague. After graduating from Pomona, Nicholas became a researcher with the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome, Italy for a year through the Fulbright program. After his return to the USA in 2012, Nicholas worked as a Research Analyst at Industrial Economics, a Boston-area environmental consulting firm, which helped to determine the direction of his further education. Two years later, in 2014, Nicholas began his studies at Charles University, at the IES, where he successfully finished and defended his Master’s thesis research on the economic value of Czech crop diversity last year under the guidance of Mgr. Milan Ščasný PhD., and smoothly continued to his doctoral studies in Geneva. In his free time Nicholas likes to hike and canoe.

Jana Tůmová currently works at Deloitte as an Associate in the team of valuation and financial modeling, where, besides the valuation of "classical" companies, she concentrates on property valuation and start-ups. Jana joined Deloitte in October 2016. Before that, she worked for a short time in Corporate Finance at Česká spořitelna and previously for more than 3 years at RSJ Investments. Thanks to the Erasmus program, she spent half a year in Denmark at the University of Aarhus. She also participated in the Smart deal competition in the Real Estate section of Penta. In her spare time, she enjoys sports. She does the jogging several times a week, likes swimming and surfing. When studying, she was also doing the ultimate frisbee, but unfortunately there is no time left for this activity the last two years.

One year after graduation, Marek Hauzr works at Wood & Company as an Equity Research Analyst. It means that he discovers what is happening on the stock exchange and suggests algorithms that are then automatically traded. He also continues his IES studies as a PhD student, wherehe focuses on Predictions by neural networks in finance and energy markets. Marek gained experience already during his studies, passed an internship in CzechTraduate, worked as a freelancer as a PHP tester or as an Analyst of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic and as an Analyst at Czech Post in its ICT Services branch. In his spare time, Marek does everything he does not do because of workload. He likes drinking beer with his friends, cooking (sometimes beer), procrastinating, reading papers, going to pub quizzes, reconstructing his house, or wandering around the forest.

Vít Macháček is currently working as a Macroeconomic Analyst at Česká spořitelna. He worked there already when studying, as an EU office Analyst focusing on enterprise environment in individual countries of European Union, later as a Junior Structured Finance Analyst, he provided Salesmen's support for calculating different kinds of financial derivatives. Since2015, he has been also a Junior Researcher of a think–tank at CERGE-EI. He is engaged in an in-depth analysis of the Czech innovation environment. Vít graduated with Bachelor´s degree from VŠE, continued at the IES with his master's studies and currently he is starting his doktoral studies at CERGE-EI. In his free time he enjoys music, social life or hiking.