Members of The Czech Fiscal Council

Mojmír Hampl, a leading Czech economist, began his career in 1998 as an analyst in the Czech National Bank’s Monetary Department. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked as a macroeconomist at Česka spořitelna – ERSTE Group. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a member of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Czech Consolidation Agency. In 2006, he was elected a member of the CNB Bank Board, where he served as Deputy Governor from March 2008 to November 2018. From 2019 to 2021, he was Director of Financial Sector Services at KPMG Czech Republic. He currently teaches at Tomas Bata University in Zlín and the University of Economics in Prague. He is also devoted to financial and economic education in his leisure time – he is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Economic Education INEV. He was elected to the Czech Fiscal Council in December 2021 by the Chamber of Deputies, on a proposal from the Senate for a six-year term.

Petr Musil graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University (FEA MU) in Brno, where he worked as an assistant professor and defended his dissertation in 2007. His other places of work have included the Research Centre for the Competitiveness of the Czech Economy at FEA MU in Brno and the Banking Institute University, where he led the Department of Finance and Economics between 2014 and 2016. Since 2009, he has been working as an assistant at the Department of Economic Studies at the College of Polytechnics in Jihlava, where he teaches mainly micro and macroeconomics courses. Since 2015, he has also contributed to the media as an economic editor, since 2020 for the CNN Prima News website, and as an economic expert and moderator on the TV station of the same name. He has authored dozens of publications focused on fiscal, monetary and energy policy, the labour market and wage differentiation. His term will run until 2028.

Jan Pavel is a respected figure in the academic sphere. Within his pedagogical activities, he has a long-lasting devotion to public finance, the theory of budgetary and fiscal policy, and public sector efficiency. From 2003 to 2006, he worked at the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, and since 2005, has been part of the Department of Public Finance at the University of Economics, Prague. Jan Pavel is the author or co-author of numerous publications, research papers, and expert articles both in the Czech Republic and abroad. He became a professor in 2015, and in January 2018, the Chamber of Deputies elected him to the Czech Fiscal Council on a proposal of the Czech National Bank for a two-year term. He was re-elected for another six-year term, which he began serving in January 2020.

Eva Zamrazilová is a leading Czech economist who served on the Board of the Czech National Bank between 2008 and 2014. She completed her master’s and doctoral studies at the University of Economics, Prague, and began teaching statistics theory and economic statistics there in 1990. Concurrently, as a researcher at the Institute of Forecasting at the same university, she participated in many studies on the transformation of the Czech economy. She also worked at the Economic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Research Institute of Labour and Social Affairs. Since 1994, she worked at Komerční banka on its Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting team. In February 2008, the President of the Czech Republic appointed her to the Board of the Czech National Bank; she took office on 1 March 2008. After concluding her six-year mandate, she became the Chief Economist of the Czech Banking Association in 2014. Four years later, in January 2018, she was appointed Chairwoman of the Czech Fiscal Council. She continues to lecture macroeconomic analysis at the University of Economics, Prague. Eva Zamrazilova’s first-term mandate at the Czech Fiscal Council is for six years.