Pavel Kysilka

Pavel Kysilka studied at VŠE in Prague, Faculty of Economics, where he later did a research internship. In the 1990s he held several positions including the position of the Executive Governor of the Czech National Bank, where he controlled the split of the Czechoslovakian currency in 1993. He also worked as an expert for the IMF and as a president of the Czech Economic Society during this time. In 2000 he began to work as a main economist for Česká spořitelna; in 2004 he was elected by the Supervisory Board to become a Member of the Executive Board and from January 2011 he held the position of  Director General and was Chairman of the Board of Directors for five years.