Mojmir Hampl has been Vice-Governor of the Czech National Bank since 2008. He obtained an MSc at the University of Surrey, UK, in 2001 and a PhD at the University of Economics, Prague, in 2004. His research interests include economic methodology, public choice, monetary policy, and economics of natural resources.In 1999, he was awarded the title of “Young Economist of the Year” by the Czech Economic Society. In 2002-2004, he was engaged in macroeconomic research and research on Central and Eastern European financial markets as an economist at Ceska sporitelna - ERSTE Group. At that time, he was also an external adviser to the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic in an expert group preparing a public finance reform proposal. In 2004-2006, he was a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Director of the Czech Consolidation Agency.He is a member of the Academic Council of Skoda Auto University in Mlada Boleslav, a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem, and a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Management and Economics at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. He acts as a Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics and as a Co-Chair of the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group for Europe, and he regularly lectures at universities.
