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22. 11. 2018
  • The CNB

Petr Král to head CNB Monetary Department

Petr Král will become the new Executive Director of the CNB’s Monetary Department on 1 December 2018. This decision has been made by the CNB Bank Board. Mr Král will take over as Executive Director of the Monetary Department from Tomáš Holub, who will become a CNB Board member on 1 December 2018.

Also with effect from December, the Bank Board appointed Luboš Komárek as Deputy Executive Director of the Monetary Department in charge of the External Economic Relations Division, and Dana Hájková as Director of the Monetary Policy and Fiscal Analyses Division.

Markéta Fišerová
Director of the Communications Division and CNB Spokesperson

 

Petr KrálPetr Král (45) completed his studies in finance and economic theory at the University of Economics in Prague. He joined the CNB in 1999 and has held various positions in the Macroeconomic Forecasting Division of the Monetary Department since then. In 2004–2007, he was head of the Short-term Forecasting Unit and Deputy Director of the Division. In 2006, he headed the CNB’s prediction team, and in 2005–2007, he represented the CNB in the ESCB’s Working Group on Forecasting (WGF). He became Director of the Monetary Policy and Fiscal Analyses Division in 2007 and Deputy Director of the Monetary Department in 2015. In 2007–2014, he was an alternate of the CNB Vice-Governor in the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) in Brussels. The Czech government appointed him as a member of the Committee on Budgetary Forecasts in April 2018. In his research, publications and lectures, Mr Král specialises in practical monetary policy issues (strategy, instruments, communication and euro adoption).

 

Luboš KomárekLuboš Komárek (47) graduated in economic theory from the Faculty of Economics at VŠB-TU in Ostrava, where he received his Ph.D. in 2001 and qualified in economics five years later. He also graduated in economics from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and in marketing and management from the Silesian University in Opava and completed his MBA studies at Newport University. He was appointed professor of economics in 2016. Between 2008 and 2010, he was President of the Czech Economics Society. He joined the CNB in September 1996, working successively in the positions of economist, adviser to a Bank Board Member and head of the Monetary Analyses and Monetary Policy Transmission Unit of the Monetary and Statistics Department. He has been the Director of the External Economic Relations Division of the Monetary Department since July 2009. He is an alternate CNB representative in the ECB’s Monetary Policy Committee and the International Relations Committee. Mr Komárek is the author of numerous papers and presentations, in particular on exchange rates, asset prices, financial integration and financial stability. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University and the Faculty of Economics at VŠB-TU in Ostrava.

 

Dana HájkováDana Hájková (43) graduated from the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Economics in Prague and completed her doctoral studies in economic theory at the Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University (CERGE UK) in Prague. She worked as an economic analyst in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris in 2002–2004. She later worked in various analytical and managerial positions in the CNB’s Monetary Department; in 2008–2014 she headed the Monetary Analyses and Monetary Policy Transmission Unit and the Fiscal Analyses Unit. In 2014–2016, she worked as an economic and financial analyst in the private sector. Over the last two years, she has worked as an adviser to a Bank Board member.