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Marek Rojíček, President of the Czech Statistical Office

Marek Rojíček, Ph.D.Marek Rojíček, Ph.D. - President of the Czech Statistical Office
Born on 26 May 1976 in the town of Třinec, Czech Republic.
Married, has two children.

Work Experience

03/2018–presentPresident of the Czech Statistical Office, Prague, Czech Republic
04/2014–03/2018Vice-President of the Czech Statistical Office, Prague, Czech Republic
01/2007–03/2014Director of the Macroeconomic Statistics Section, Czech Statistical Office, Prague, Czech Republic
01/2005–12/2011Research fellow, Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Economics and Management, Prague, Czech Republic; (half-time job, cooperating on grants of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)
09/2003–12/2006Head of the Input-Output Tables Unit, Czech Statistical Office, Prague, Czech Republic
09/2001–08/2003Expert in sector accounts, Czech Statistical Office Prague, Czech Republic

Education

09/2002–09/2009Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Field of studies: Economic policy
PhD title

09/1995–06/2001Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Field of studies: Economic policy
Ing title

09/1990–06/1995Business Academy, Frýdek-Místek, Czech Republic

A-level examination

Memberships in Professional Organisations

2005 – presentInternational Input-Output Association
2006 – presentCzech Economic Society

Other Important Professional Activities

  • Member of the executive board of the Journal of Statistika;
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal of Politická ekonomie;
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal of Acta Oeconomica Pragensia;
  • Evaluator of the National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education for economic disciplines;
  • Member of the Scientific Council, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague.

Language Knowledge

  • English (level C1)
  • French (A-level examination)

Participation in International Projects of Technical Assistance in the Field of National Accounts Statistics

02/2007–12/2010Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, short-term expert, five missions within the period;
10/2008–06/2010Egypt, short-term expert, four missions within the period.

Essential Professional and Scientific Engagements

Mr Marek Rojíček has been professionally engaged in the field of national accounts. He contributed to implementation of European national accounts standards in the Czech Statistical Office prior the Czech Republic accession to the European Union. In his scientific activities he concentrates on research of the role of economic structures in the transition process from cost-oriented competitive advantages to quality-oriented ones and also to analysis of macroeconomic and structural impacts of globalisation of economic flows. In his pedagogic activities he participates in teaching of macroeconomic analysis at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic. He is also author and/or co-author of several tens of scientific and professional papers, teaching texts, and research studies.