Faculty

Krešimir Žigić is the Citigroup Endowment Associate Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI (under US permanent charter) since 2007 and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2004. He is a Docent (Associate Professor) at CERGE, Charles University since 2012 (previously an Assistant Professor since 1996) and a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2014 (previously a Researcher since 1993). He served as Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE and EI in 1997–1999, 2005–2008 and 2015–2017. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb, B.A. in 1982, M.A. 1988. and received Ph.D. in Economics at CERGE-EI in 1996. He was Philip Morris Associate Professor, Česká spořitelna Chair and Altria Group Associate Professor. Lecturer, Central European University, 1994. Lecturer, World Bank and Joint Vienna Institute Comprehensive Course, 1993–2003.

Research Orientation:
International trade, industrial organization, applied microeconomics