President appoints new Bank Board members today

President Václav Klaus today appointed Vladimír Tomšík and Mojmír Hampl as members of the CNB Bank Board . With effect from 1 December, the new members will replace Michaela Erbenová and Jan Frait, whose six-year terms expire on 30 November.

The other Bank Board members are Governor Zdeněk Tůma (whose term started on 11 February 2005), Vice-Governor Luděk Niedermayer (whose term started on 27 February 2002), Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer and Chief Executive Directors Robert Holman and Pavel Řežábek (whose terms started on 11 February 2005).

Curriculum Vitae of Vladimír Tomšík

Born on 12 June 1974 in Čeladná. Vladimír Tomšík graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration and the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics, Prague, and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University, Prague. He has PhDs in economic policy (from the University of Economics, Prague) and economics (from Charles University, Prague). In 2004, he qualified as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics, Prague.

From 1997 Vladimír Tomšík worked as special assistant at the University of Economics, Prague. In February 2000 he became an analyst in the Macroeconomic Analysis Team of the Chief Economist at Komerční banka. From September 2000, he worked as Chief Economist at the financial and consulting group Newton Holding. Between 2004 and 2006, he was also head of the Economics Institute at Newton College. Since September 2005 he has held the post of deputy head of the team analysing the rules for multilateral trade and investment agreements at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland.

Between 1997 and 2005 Vladimír Tomšík lectured on economic policy and macroeconomic analysis and forecasting at the University of Economics, Prague, Charles University in Prague and Newton College in Brno. He has studied and worked in Ireland, Germany, the United States and Switzerland. He regularly speaks and publishes on monetary policy and macroeconomics at home and abroad.

Curriculum Vitae of Mojmír Hampl

Born on 13 March 1975. Mojmír Hampl graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration at the University of Economics, Prague, where he received his PhD in 2004. In parallel, he studied for two years at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, where he obtained an MSc. He also completed a specialised course on macroeconomic analysis and policy at the IMF Institute in Vienna. In addition, he has attended a number of other courses and training programmes in economic policy and economic theory (Friedrich Neumann Institute, London School of Economics and others).

In 1998 he became a Senior Analyst at the Czech National Bank. Later, as an external adviser to the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic, he was a member of an expert group preparing a public finance reform proposal. In 2002, he was engaged in macroeconomic research and research on Central and Eastern European financial markets as an economist and economic analysis coordinator at Česká spořitelna - ERSTE Group. In recent years, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Director of the Czech Consolidation Agency. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Czech Economics Society and a member of the Academic Council of Škoda Auto University in Mladá Boleslav, and he teaches at the University of Economics, Prague. He has published numerous articles and studies on economic methodology, monetary policy, public choice theory, the economic theory of natural resources and general economic theory.

Pavlína Bolfová, CNB spokesperson