Doc. Ing. Daniel Münich, Ph.D.

e-mail: Daniel.Munich@cerge-ei.cz Home Page tel.:420-224 005 175 room no.: 303

Received Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1998 from CERGE, Charles University in Prague; received Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from the Czech Technical University in Prague. During 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and during 1994-1995 at a study stay at the University of Pittsburgh. Serves as Associate Professor at CERGE and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (EI). He served as a Deputy Director for Development and Public Relations (2003-2006) and Deputy Director for Graduate Studies (1999-2002) at CERGE-EI. Altria Professor (since Spring 2006). Member of the Board of EI (from 1997), Board of the Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (since 2006), a member of the executive board of the Czech Economic Society (since 2003), Research Affiliate of CEPR in London, and a member of the European Association of Labour Economists. He has served as an advisor to Ministers of Education, Youth and Sport, and of Finances of the Czech Republic (in 2006 and during 1997-1998), an external advisor of the minister of finance of the Czech Republic (1997, 2002-2004), a steering committee member under the auspices of the Czech vice-minister for economy to supervise the national Strategy for Economic Growth (in 2005), a chair of the governmental Advisory Committee for Social and Human Sciences and member of Advisory Committee for Evaluation of R&D of the Board for R&D of the Czech government (since 2008), member of an expert team preparing reform of the Czech tertiary education system, a senior advisor to the European Network of Economists of Education (EENEE) (2004-2007), and as a National SYSDEM Correspondent for the EU commission (2005-now), and as a National SYSDEM Correspondent for the EU commission (2005-now).

Research Orientation:

Labor economics (empirical issues of unemployment, labor supply and policies, human capital, welfare schemes), economics of education and schooling (public vs. private schools, quality of education, efficiency and equity, selectivity), bibliometric analysis.