Tomáš Sedláček

He is a leading economist and university pedagogue, one of the world’s most famous Czech economists today. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as an adviser to President Václav Havel. From 2004 to 2005, he was an adviser to the Minister of Finance. He spent much of his childhood in Finland and Denmark. In 2001 he became a doctor of philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He also studied at Yale University in the USA. He lectures on economics and the history of economic theories at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. He also works as a macroeconomic strategist at ČSOB banka. He is a member of the board of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. For his main publication The Economics of Good and Evil, he received the German Prize for Economics in 2012. This publication has been translated into 22 world languages and has also been a success with foreign critics (Financial Times, New York Times, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).