Professional experience and education

European Parliament

• ECON, BUDG and FISC: financial legislation, the EU budget and taxation.
• Briefings, amendments, voting recommendations and negotiating material.
• MISP, the digital euro, RRF, MFF 2028–2034, NRPP, securitisation and EU own resources.
• EU debt financing, NGEU, guarantees, contingent liabilities and budgetary implications.

At the European Parliament I worked as an Economic Adviser on economic, financial-services and budgetary policy. The role combined economic analysis with legislative and negotiating work on selected European proposals.

European Commission — DG ECFIN

• Official European Commission macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts.
• The European Semester, MIP, IDRs, Country Reports and structural economic analysis.
• RRF for Slovakia and Malta: implementation, revisions, milestones, targets and payment mechanisms.
• Quantitative methodology for adjusting investment targets following rising construction costs and inflation.

In DG ECFIN I worked as an Economic Analyst in unit G1 covering Czechia, Poland and Slovakia. My main responsibilities concerned Slovakia and Malta. I prepared official macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts and worked on economic surveillance and RRF implementation.

European Central Bank — Macroprudential Policy

• Bank capital requirements, capital buffers and their impact on credit supply.
• AnaCredit: granular loan data linked to bank supervisory data.
• SQL data warehouses, automation and econometric analysis in R on distributed infrastructure.
• Research on capital-requirement relief during the pandemic.

At the ECB I worked on quantitative financial-stability analysis and the impact of bank capital requirements on credit supply. The work combined extensive loan and supervisory datasets with econometric analysis.

European Central Bank — Financial Markets

• Bond, foreign-exchange and wider financial markets; analysis for the team and senior ECB decision-making.
• Investment strategy and risk monitoring for the ECB’s foreign-reserve bond portfolio.
• Analysis and reporting of managed portfolios and foreign-exchange interventions.
• Python and Tableau for foreign-exchange analysis, VaR and market risks.

In the ECB’s Bond and International Markets Division I analysed financial markets and central-bank portfolios. My work included investment strategy, risk monitoring and analytical input for ECB decision-making.

European Central Bank — Banking Statistics

• Collection, validation, processing and distribution of bank supervisory data from national authorities.
• Capital, liquidity, credit-risk, stress-testing and data-quality indicators.
• SAS/SQL processing of extensive supervisory datasets and visualisation in Tableau.
• Reduction of one daily reporting process from approximately six hours to two.

In supervisory banking statistics I worked with extensive banking datasets and the data infrastructure of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Alongside data processing and validation, I analysed banking indicators and automated reporting processes.

ECB / European Systemic Risk Board Secretariat

• Systemic Risk Survey: data collection, processing, visualisation and automation.
• Systemic risks in banks, real estate, insurance companies and pension funds.
• Econometric analysis of non-performing-loan drivers and VAR models in MATLAB.
• Material for the ESRB General Board and public economic communication.

In the ESRB Secretariat I analysed systemic risks in the European financial system. The work combined data processing and automation, econometric analysis and preparation of material for the ESRB General Board.

European Commission — DG ECFIN

• Macroeconomic imbalances in Sweden and the United Kingdom.
• Development of econometric models and updates to quantitative methodology.
• Housing-price and interest-rate shock model used in the Sweden Country Report 2015.
• EViews/VAR modelling, household indebtedness and transmission of shocks to GDP and consumption.

In DG ECFIN I analysed macroeconomic imbalances and developed econometric models for Sweden and the United Kingdom. I also provided analytical support for the Commission’s country-surveillance publications.

Boston Consulting Group

• Strategy for launching a new mobile network operator.
• Quantitative analysis of the competitive telecommunications market.
• Pricing strategy and analytical material for client decisions.
• Analytical and project responsibilities within the client team.

At Boston Consulting Group I worked on a strategic project in telecommunications. My focus was market and competitor analysis and pricing strategy for the launch of a new mobile network operator.

Arthur D. Little

• Strategic project for a large energy company in Eastern Europe.
• Statistical analysis of company financial data and assets.
• Analysis for a capital investment strategy.
• Assessment of expansion into new business sectors.

At Arthur D. Little I worked on a strategic project in the energy sector. I analysed financial data, investment options and opportunities to expand into new business areas.

Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU

• Participation in Council and preparatory meetings on financial regulation.
• Analysis of CRD IV/CRR and implementation of Basel III in EU law.
• OTC derivatives and the future EMIR; short selling and credit default swaps.
• Meeting reports and analytical material for the Czech Ministry of Finance.

At the Czech Permanent Representation to the EU I gained my first practical experience of European legislation and negotiations. My work focused on financial regulation and analytical material for the Czech Ministry of Finance.

University of St. Gallen

• Advanced econometrics, statistics, macroeconomics, microeconomics and finance.
• Master’s thesis: GDP forecasting using Bayesian VAR and neural networks.
• Variable selection, model-parameter optimisation and comparison of forecast accuracy.

My Master’s programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance provided a foundation in econometric modelling, statistics and macroeconomics. My thesis compared Bayesian VAR models and neural networks for forecasting GDP in European economies.

London School of Economics and Political Science

• Mathematics, statistics, microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics.
• Advanced economics, game theory, political science and public policy.
• An interdisciplinary combination of quantitative economics and political decision-making.

At LSE I studied economics alongside political science and quantitative methods. The programme provided a foundation for my subsequent work combining economic analysis and policy in European institutions.

University of Warwick

• First year of Economics, Politics and International Studies.
• Economics, mathematics, statistics, computer science and data analysis.
• Successful completion of all first-year examinations.
• Subsequent transfer to the London School of Economics.

At the University of Warwick I completed the first year of Economics, Politics and International Studies. I then transferred to the London School of Economics, where I completed the BSc Government and Economics.

Gymnázium Matyáše Lercha, Brno

• Six-year bilingual grammar-school programme with a general and science-oriented curriculum.
• Intensive French followed by selected subjects taught in French.
• French-medium subjects included mathematics, physics, chemistry, history and geography.
• Czech school-leaving qualification and a French examination certificate recognising equivalence to French secondary-school completion.

At Gymnázium Matyáše Lercha I completed a six-year bilingual programme with intensive French and selected science subjects taught in French. I obtained the Czech school-leaving qualification and a French examination certificate recognising equivalence to French secondary-school completion.