Michaela Kozáková to head internal audit at the CNB

Michaela Kozáková will become Executive Director of the Internal Audit Department of the Czech National Bank with effect from 1 April 2025. She was appointed to this position by the Bank Board on 13 March 2025 on the basis of an internal selection procedure.

The internal selection procedure was announced after Executive Director of the Internal Audit Department Pavel Zeman accepted a prestigious offer at the start of this year to serve as the Czech Republic’s representative to the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust).

Michaela Kozáková graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of West Bohemia with a master’s degree in 2001, after which she passed the bar exam. Over the course of her career, she has worked as an independent solicitor, a permanent deputy notary, and head of the legal department at the Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education. She has been working at the Czech National Bank since 2019, first as an expert in administrative proceedings in the area of financial market supervision. She has held the post of Deputy Director of the Administrative Proceedings Division of the Financial Market Supervision Department since 2024.

Jakub Holas
Director, CNB Communications Division