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Jan Svejnar

Jan Svejnar is Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is also a founder and Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague (an American-style Ph.D. program in economics that educates the new generation of economists for Central-East Europe and the Newly Independent States). He serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CSOB Bank and Governing Board member of the European Economic Association.

From 1996 to 2004, Professor Svejnar was the Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School where he established a leading research and outreach program on business and economic policy issues relating to the transition and emerging market economies.

Professor Svejnar's academic interests are in the areas of economic development and transition, labor economics and behavior of the firm. His research focuses on the determinants and effects of (a) government policies on firms and labor and capital markets, (b) corporate and national governance and performance, and (c) entrepreneurship. He has published widely and serves as advisor to governments and firms in advanced and emerging market economies.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Jan Svejnar was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University. He received his B.S. with honors from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and his MA and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

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