Faculty Members/Lecturers
Tanweer Ali is a lecturer with the international programmes at VŠE. He teaches classes in finance and sustainability. His current research interest is in Corporate Governance; he has participated in numerous conferences and published several journal articles and book chapters.
He holds an MA degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford and the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and FRM (Financial Risk Manager) designations. Before entering academia, Tanweer had a ten-year career in finance, both in the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. In addition to his teaching work, he has been an active volunteer with the CFA Institute in Virginia, serving in numerous roles for over 20 years. He also established the Czech CFA Society and was its first President. Tanweer has also acted as a board member or advisor for a number of non-profit organizations, especially in the refugee and human rights fields. He currently serves on the board of the Institute for Debt Prevention and Resolution.
Active memberships: Worldwide Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR), CFA Institute, Global Associate of Risk Professionals, Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
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Vladimír Hönig works at the Department of Strategy and within the Center for the Economics of Regulated Industries. In his scientific research and teaching activities, he focuses on the circular economy, renewable energy sources, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and the carbon footprint across various fields. He is also a member of the Czech Quality Council and international scientific societies. In his publication activities and research projects, he combines disciplines to achieve comprehensive environmental-economic evaluations.
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Marek is an Associate professor at the Department of Managerial Economics and Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Business Administration. His current research focuses on decision-making, institutional and organizational economics, applied microeconomics, and the history of economic thought. His articles appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Institutional Economics, Theory and Decision, International Journal of Production Economics, Rationality and Society, International Journal of Game Theory, and History of Political Economy, among others. Marek has rich international experience. Before joining VŠE, he worked at the International Business School Suzhou at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China. He also held visiting positions at several renowned institutions in China, Italy, Germany, and USA. Marek has a Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. Throughout his career, he has received several teaching and research awards. Marek has been in academia since 2011.
Between 2012 and 2013, Marek worked for the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic in the EU Economic Policy Coordination Unit. He also has international experience with teaching in executive education programs.
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Šárka is a full professor of economics in the Department of Managerial Economics specializing in the role of institutional environments in shaping economic outcomes, with a particular focus on lobbying. Her research examines lobbying rules from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives and includes co-authoring a methodology to assess lobbying transparency. Currently, she explores responsible corporate lobbying as a form of policy advocacy aligned with social and environmental sustainability goals. Šárka has published her research in respected journals such as Policy Studies, Critical Policy Studies and Interest Groups & Advocacy.
Course taught within Master in Sustainability Management:
Responsible Lobbying and Advocacy
A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Dr Martínez’s career covers process excellence in Lean Management and Organisational Design. The research in Lean Management explores the creation of a leanness measurement system (Lean Index) and its applicability. He also researches lean in the framework of Industry 4.0. The research in Organisational Design focuses on the Procedures to set up the organisational structure. His PhD presents more than 10 years of work on this topic. He is an Industrial Engineer (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá) and PhD in Management (Prague University of Economics and Business). He has worked in the field for 20 years, earning experience in Colombia, India and the Czech Republic.
Felipe has more than 20 years of experience working for several companies and institutions, having taught in Canada, Portugal and other countries. He constantly cooperates with firms on developing specific projects in process improvement and operations management, even going as far as to employ even virtual reality, for instance.
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Nikol Medunová works at the Department of Strategy at the Faculty of Business Administration of the Prague University of Economics and Business, where she focuses on teaching in the field of sustainability and ESG.
During her academic career, she studied law and obtained degrees in Business Administration, International Management, and an MBA with a specialization in Real Estate. In her doctoral studies, she focuses on the relationship between financial efficiency and ESG ratings of companies.
She has gained experience in strategic management (Košík.cz), project management (Olife Energy – 72 charging stations, Horizon 2020 funding), auditing (Deloitte, KPMG – with a focus on real estate), and sustainability (White Star Real Estate – BREEAM, LEED, WELL certifications, ESG reporting). She holds PCAOB and ACCA certifications.
Course taught within Master in Sustainability Management:
ESG Project, Green and sustainable ecosystems
Kateřina is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology. During her doctoral studies, she focused on the topic of followership, which is still the focus of her research. She teaches courses on leadership, sustainable leadership, and intercultural communication, in both Czech and English language. She also lectures at other Czech universities, including MBA courses. At VŠE, she is the guarantor of the course Organisational Behaviour in the summer school programme in collaboration with the University of Texas, Austin. As a lecturer and consultant, she has worked with various organizations, including the non-profit sector and volunteer groups (FAMU, Skautský institut, ČZU, ČZIF, and others). She is involved in various research grants and projects (ESF OPVVV I and II, NPO, TAČR, EIT Horizon Europe, and others), mostly focusing on the development of various competencies. She frequently serves as a visiting lecturer at foreign universities (University of Stockholm, University of Maribor, Kaunas University of Technology, ISCTE de Lisboa, and others).
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Vaclav is an Associate professor at the Department of Marketing at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He focuses on strategic marketing and digital marketing. He is author and co-author of various research papers and scientific monographs on consumer behaviour and online marketing. He has been engaged, as a researcher, on several research projects financed by grants from the Czech Science Foundation and other institutions.
Vaclav has over 20 years of experience in the field. He has worked as a business consultant; he has been, as well, a developer and lecturer of professional training courses in marketing in cooperation with a number of institutions and companies (e.g. Czech Trade, Century21). He has also cooperated on business and research projects with various companies (e.g. Seznam.cz, a leading Czech online portal). From 2012 to 2021, Vaclav was a member of the jury board of Internet Effectiveness Awards.
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Ladislav is an experienced lecturer, business consultant, and practitioner. He focuses on strategy and strategy related topics. Besides being the Academic Director of the BBA programme, he is also the academic director of the university’s flagship programme CEMS – Master in International Management, and Deputy Head of Department of Strategy. He is passionate about designing strategies and navigating companies in the wild water of future megatrends and uncertainties.
He has worked in the field for more than 11 years. He is also a recipient of the inaugural CEMS Philippe Louvet Innovation Award along with a grant of 20,000 Euros which enables the VSE to implement a new capstone course entitled “Lateral Collaboration in the Age of Exponential Change and Disruption”. With his colleague from the Department of Strategy, he has co-written two case studies published by Ivey Publishing; “Debito Technologies: Taking a debt management app abroad“ and “Behavio Labs: Scaling Survey Software into a Global Product.”
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Andrea Sáenz de Viteri is an Assistant Professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business, Department ofManagerial Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Navarra (Spain), with research interests in international political economy, institutional economics, law and economics, and populism. Her research has been published in leading international journals such as European Journal of Political Economy, Constitutional Political Economy, World Development, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Before joining VSE, she held academic positions at the University of Navarra and was a visiting researcher at institutions including Aarhus University, Heidelberg University, the OECD, and the Deutsche Bundesbank. Andrea has extensive teaching experience in microeconomics, game theory, and institutional economics.
Course taught within Master in Sustainability Management:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics