CERGE Graduation Council

The CERGE Graduation Council (Oborová rada in Czech) is a body of distinguished faculty and researchers of CERGE and other institutions which regulates the program and the organization of postgraduate study in economics. Its members are appointed (on the basis of a proposal by the Director of CERGE) by the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences after the approval of the Scientific Council of the Faculty. The Chairman of the Graduation Council is appointed by the Dean.

The Council is responsible, among other things, for the admission criteria, the appointment of the selection committee, providing the Dean with a list of accepted students for final approval, and the content of the study program. In addition, it nominates the members of examination and dissertation defense committees, approves dissertation topics and supervisors, and appoints opponents for dissertation defenses. Finally, it provides the Dean of the Faculty with proposals for the awarding of Ph.D. degrees to students who have successfully completed the postgraduate program.

The current members of the Graduation Council are as follows:

Štěpán Jurajda (Chair)
CERGE

Randall K. Filer
City University New York

Jiří Hlaváček
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Karel Janda
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Michal Kejak
CERGE

Jan Švejnar
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and CERGE-EI Institute

Zdeněk Tůma
KPMG

Jan Ámos Víšek
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Josef Zieleniec
New York University in Prague

Karel Zimmermann
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague