Jan Procházka – CNB Board member

Jan Procházka was born on 1 February 1979 in Ostrava. He graduated from the Faculty of Science of Palacký University in Olomouc and completed his economic education at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Mendel University in Brno. He worked in the CYRRUS financial group for ten years, among other things as chief analyst and director of the Prague branch. From 2012 to 2023 he worked as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation, where he was responsible for the support and diversification of Czech exports as well as the implementation of Solvency II and representation in international institutions. From 2012 to 2023 he chaired the Supervisory Board of the Budvar national brewery. He was also a member of a working group of the government’s Legislative Council, the RIA Commission and was twice a member of the National Economic Council, which he headed in 2022–2023. Jan Procházka speaks English and basic Spanish.

He became a member of the CNB Bank Board on 13 February 2023.