Faculty

Štěpán Jurajda has been the Mellon Endowment Professor with Tenure (under US permanent charter) at CERGE-EI and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI since 2004. Between January 2009 and December 2013, he served as the Director of CERGE, Charles University, and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (EI), where he is a Full Professor and a Senior Researcher, respectively. He is also affiliated with IZA, Bonn. He graduated from the Prague School of Economics in Econometrics and Operations Research and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Labor Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. Štěpán was also a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University, Department of Economics. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists, and chair of the Economics Panel and the Social Sciences and Humanities Committee at the Czech Science Foundation. He received the Gold Commemorative medal of Charles University and was granted the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. He has been a member of the National Economic Council of the Government of the Czech Republic and Vice-Chairman of the Research, Development and Innovation Council of the Government of the Czech Republic. He currently serves as Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Innovation of the Czech Republic and is also a member of the Government Council for Gender Equality.

Research Orientation:

Applied microeconomics, econometrics, labour economics, economics of transition