President appoints new Vice-Governor and new Bank Board member today

President Václav Klaus today appointed Mojmír Hampl as CNB Vice-Governor and Eva Zamrazilová as Chief Executive Director and member of the CNB Bank Board with effect from 1 March 2008. The term of office of Vice-Governor Luděk Niedermayer will expire on 26 February.

The other Bank Board members are Governor Zdeněk Tůma (whose term started on 11 February 2005), Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer (whose term started on 11 February 2005) and Chief Executive Directors Mojmír Hampl (whose term started on 1 December 2006), Robert Holman and Pavel Řežábek (whose terms started on 11 February 2005) and Vladimír Tomšík (whose term started on 1 December 2006).

Curriculum Vitae of Eva Zamrazilová (1961)

After completing her studies at the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration at the University of Economics in Prague, Eva Zamrazilová lectured on statistical theory and economic statistics at the University of Economics and worked as a researcher at its Forecasting Institute, at the Economic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs. In the 1990s she co-authored numerous papers on the transformation of the Czech economy and went on short-term research stays in other countries. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Statistics Department of the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration at the University of Economics in 1990. From 1994 onwards she was involved in the preparation of macroeconomic analyses and forecasts in the Team of the Chief Economist at Komerční banka. She works with the Czech Banking Association in the Working Group for Economic and Monetary Issues, and she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Czech Economic Society and a winner of the Czech Economic Society Prize. She lectures on macroeconomic analysis at the University of Economics and Management. She has a long publication record in Czech and foreign journals, specialising in macroeconomic equilibrium, the convergence process in transition economies, economic policy and the labour market (she has authored or co-authored more than 150 titles). She also lectures at conferences.

Curriculum Vitae of Mojmír Hampl (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 Economic 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