PFI Talks

Michael Sonenscher is one of Britain's most distinguished intellectual historians, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at King's College, University of Cambridge, where he has taught for several decades. His work has reshaped how scholars understand the political, economic and moral thought of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, and the deep intellectual origins of the categor...

Jon Spencer is a Partner at TriWest Capital Partners, one of Canada's leading private equity firms. Based in Calgary, Alberta, TriWest was founded in 1998 and has raised more than ~$1.75 billion of committed capital across seven funds, completing fifty platform investments and over sixty add-on acquisitions, with a focus on partnering with management teams of Western Canadian mid-market and lo...

Sir John Kay, CBE, FBA, FRSE, is one of Britain's leading economists, whose career has spanned the academic world, business and finance, and public affairs. Born in Edinburgh in 1948, he has held chairs at the London Business School, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and has been a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford since 1970, when he was elected to a permanent...

Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA, is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is also Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a co-director of the International Growth Centre, a joint initiative of LSE and Oxford. From 1998 to 2003 he served as Director of the Development Research Gr...

George Selgin is an American economist. Until his retirement in July 2025, he served as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, where he was the founding Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and editor-in-chief of its online publication, Alt-M. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, Honorary Professor at Francis...

Carmen M. Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. She was Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund and held positions as Chief Economist and Vice President at the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s. She serves in the Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was a memb...

Morgan Housel is a prominent financial writer, award-winning author, and investor known for his insightful perspectives on money, investing, and behavioral economics. He is a partner at ⁠The Collaborative Fund, ⁠a venture capital firm at the intersection of finance, innovation, and social progress. With a keen interest in storytelling, Housel has built a reputation for his ability to convey comple...

One of the world's top monetary historians Michael D. Bordo, Professor at Rutgers University, sees alarming parallels between today and the catastrophic 1930s. KEY POINTSThe "Wily Coyote Moment"· Markets running on air over a fiscal cliff - haven't looked down yet· Sudden crisis could hit when confidence breaksFed Under Attack· Trump pressuring Fed just like Nixon did in the 1970...

John H. Cochrane is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute. Before joining Hoover, Cochrane was a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and earlier at its Economics Department. Cochrane earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at MIT and...

Historian and investment strategist Edward Chancellor draws parallels between the current surge in tech giants — the Magnificent 7 — and past speculative bubbles such as the 19th-century British railway mania and the 1990s internet boom. He warns of overvaluation fuelled by massive investments in artificial intelligence. Explore how rising interest rates, a soaring national debt – what Chancellor...

Štěpán Drábek je mladý český ekonom a popularizátor vědy. Působí jako makroekonomický analytik v Prague Finance Institute. Je autorem monografie o inflaci, která byla oceněna Učenou společností ČR. Nyní pracuje na překladu největšího díla nobelisty F. A. Hayeka The Constitution of Liberty.

William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Faculty Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is an expert on a diverse range of investments. His past work includes studies of stock market predictability, hedge funds and survival biases in performance measurement. His current research focuses on alternati...

Renowned economist Branko Milanović joins Prague Finance Institute to discuss the end of neoliberal globalization, the rise of China as both a geopolitical and economic rival, and the global reshuffling of income. He explores how China’s growing middle class is overtaking parts of the Western population and what that means for domestic stability in rich democracies. From shifting forms of capitali...

In this in-depth interview from the PFI Talks series by the Prague Finance Institute, renowned economist Maurice Obstfeld — Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, former Chief Economist of the IMF, and former adviser to President Obama — issues a stark warning: America’s rising debt, eroding fiscal discipline, and political gridlock are creating systemic risks far bey...

Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University, and former chief economist at the IMF. His influential 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the roots and aftermath of debt and financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his pioneering work on central...

Anat R. Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Her disciplinary interests lie in the interaction of business, law and policy, and specifically governance and accountability mechanisms in the private sector and in government. Admati is also Faculty Director of...

Rafał Brzoska is the founder and CEO of InPost, a logistics company that operates over over 25 000 parcel lockers throughout Poland, constituting the largest business structure of this type in the country Brzoska started out by founding Integer Group in 1999, which distributed leaflets. Seven years later, he started InPost, which operates automated lockers that allow customers to drop off and coll...

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 central bank wa...

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 New York Times be...

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 differences in econom...

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 education startup to spin o...

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 electricity distri...

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 international economics, fro...

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 nástupem do NRR pracoval jako ředitel služeb pro finanční...

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 školy ekonomické jako odborný asistent a člen vě...