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New Members Joining the ESC

May 14, 2014

We are proud to announce that the Academy of Sciences and Charles University have appointed Marek Kapička and Alan Krueger as members of the CERGE-EI Executive and Supervisory Committee.

Marek Kapička joined CERGE-EI as an Associate Professor with tenure in September 2013. He has served as the Deputy Director for Research since that time. He received his M.A. in Economics from Charles University in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2003. He was awarded the J. E. Purkyně Fellowship by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 2012. Marek has been awarded a four-year FP7 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant starting this May. His fields of research are macroeconomics, public finance, economic theory, and contract theory.

Alan Krueger served as Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and as a member of his Cabinet from November 2011 to August 2013. He also served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2009-10, and as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor in 1994-95. Currently he is a Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. 

The Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI is a consultative body primarily composed of internationally recognized scholars in the field of economics and representatives of Charles University, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.