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wiiw Seminar Series
'Integration in a Wider Europe' |
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Vladimír
Dlouhý, International Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe,
Goldman Sachs, former Minister of Industry and Trade of the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic and the Euro: Faster or Slower?
22 January 2009, 4 p.m. |
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| Vladimír
Dlouhý studied mathematical economics and econometrics at the
School of Economics and at Charles University in Prague. He
received his MBA at the Catholic University in Leuven (Belgium).
He started his professional career as a university lecturer,
in 1983 he moved to the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as
a researcher; later he worked as Deputy Director of the Forecasting
Institute. In 1989 he was invited to join the first post-communist
government and until 1992 he served as Minister of Economy of
Czechoslovakia. After the split of the country he served as
Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic until June
1997. Simultaneously, he became a Member of the Parliament and
vice-chairman of the Civic Democratic Alliance, a party that
was part of the governing coalition. In 1997 he announced his
departure from politics and joined Goldman Sachs as an International
Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe; in a similar capacity
he advises ABB. Mr. Dlouhý teaches macroeconomics at Charles
University in Prague and is a member of the Board of Overseers
of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is also
a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission. |
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