PFI Talks

Nov 14 2024 30 ep. 35 mins 3

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The Prague Finance Institute in cooperation with the daily E15 brings you a series of podcast interviews with distinguished domestic and foreign personalities from the world of economics and finance. The interviews with the guests of PFI Talks are hosted by Leoš Rousek, former business journalist of the Wall Street Journal and Hospodářské noviny.

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#30 Andre Chelhot, CFA - Chief Economist /PFI/

Nov 14 2024 42 mins

Andre is the Advisor to the Board at Zelof & Partners LLP which is a client-focused advisory and investment company, specializing in the fixed-income asset class, based in London. Before that he was the Chief Economist and the Head of the FX and Interest Rates, and Sovereign Credit Desk at the Olayan Group. Prior to the Olayan Group, he was trained as a macro economist and as a

#29 Gen. David H. Petraeus - Partner /KKR/ & Former CIA Director

Oct 23 2024 46 mins

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) (New York) is a Partner at KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in May 2013. He is also a member of the boards of directors of Optiv and OneStream, a Strategic Advisor for Sempra and Advanced Navigation, a personal venture investor, an academic, and the co-author (with British historian Andrew Roberts) of the N

#28 Daron Acemoglu - Economist & Professor /MIT/

Aug 16 2024 22 mins

Daron Acemoglu is an esteemed economist and author, currently serving as the Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main areas of research include political economy, economic development and growth, network economics, human capital and technological innovation. Much of his work studies the political, economic and social origins of the diffe

#27 Kyla Scanlon - Economist & Writer

Jul 15 2024 38 mins

Kyla Scanlon is the founder of a financial education company and a creator. She writes a weekly newsletter, makes YouTube videos, hosts the “Let’s Appreciate” podcast, and posts almost daily short form videos about the economy and markets. She majored in finance, economics, and data analytics. Upon graduation, she was a CAP Associate at Capital Group. She then joined an educa

#26 Bozidar Djelic - Managing Director /Lazard/

Jun 22 2024 46 mins

Bozidar Djelic is a Managing Director, and Head of Lazard for Central and Eastern Europe, CIS (ex-Soviet Union), and Turkey. Mr. Djelic advises countries, corporations, and financial institutions on their development programs, financing options, and strategic transactions. He advised the Polish e-commerce giant, Allegro, on its IPO, the Spanish utility Naturgy on the sale of its el

#25 Paul Krugman - Economist & Nobel Prize Laureate

Mar 06 2024 41 mins

Paul Krugman is a Neo-Keynesian economist, Nobel laureate, academic, author, and media columnist, known for his work on international trade theory and economic geography. Considered one of the world's most influential economists, Krugman is renowned for redefining existing theories of international trade and either founding or co-founding several new disciplines in internation

#24 Mojmír Hampl - Předseda /Národní rozpočtová rada/

Feb 06 2024 40 mins

Mojmír Hampl je již více než dva roky členem Národní rozpočtové rady, jejímž úkolem je strážit české veřejné finance. Od července 2022 tomuto nezávislému orgánu předsedá. Mezi lety 2006 až 2018 byl součástí bankovní rady České národní banky, z toho více než deset let v pozici viceguvernéra. V minulosti působil v ČNB také jako analytik. Před n

#23 Michal Kuděj - Partner /TARPAN Partners/

Jan 23 2024 23 mins

Michal Kuděj je absolventem Vysoké školy ekonomické v Praze. Specializuje na firemní finance a restrukturalizační procesy. V oblasti firemních financí, fúzí, akvizic se pohybuje od roku 1991. Je zakládajícím partnerem poradenské společnosti Tarpan Partners, v níž působí od roku 2010. Působí také na katedře strategie Fakulty podnikohospodářské Vysoké ško

#22 Maroš Kravec - Managing Partner & Founder /LitFin/

Dec 14 2023 27 mins

Maros founded LitFin in 2018 after spending several years as a business director of a successful property development company in Manchester, the United Kingdom. As LitFin’s managing partner, Maros handles its day-to-day activities, business strategy and investments. Lately, his primary focus revolves around LitFin SICAV, a recently established fully-regulated fund, perhaps the fi

#21 Perry G. Mehrling - Economist & Professor /Boston University/

Nov 29 2023 43 mins

Perry Mehrling is a Professor of International Political Economy at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, where he teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and international money. Perry is the author of The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011), Fischer Black and the Revo