Prof. Hana Machková Elected President of the University of Economics, Prague
The university president is elected by VŠE’s Academic Senate via secret ballot; a maximum of three rounds occurs. A candidate is elected president when obtaining an absolute majority of votes from all of the members of the Academic Senate. The president is elected for a four-year period, and the same person is allowed to be in office only for two consecutive terms. The president appoints vice presidents to represent her in certain areas.
The Academic Senate has 32 voting members. Prof. Machková was elected by an absolute majority of 23 votes in the third round.
During her term as rector (2014 - 2018), prof. Machková sees the following priorities for the university’s management:
- Reaction to a growing competition on the higher education market, unfavorable development of young population, and adjustment to changes in the higher education legislation;
- Provision of education programmes of good quality, high demands on students and academics, and inter-faculty cooperation based on mutual advantage;
- Cooperation with top partner universities and international organizations, strengthening of internationalization as an important source of revenue;
- Coping with an unfavorable qualification structure of academic employees, reversion of poor development of the results of research activities, support to qualification growth of junior academics;
- Participation of specialists in academic activities, support to activities of the Development and Counselling Centre and students (business incubators, technological, or innovation centers), attention to expert cooperation with alumni, and stronger prestige of VŠE through life-long learning provision;
- Cooperation with all parts of the university, fostering cultivation of the academic environment, coordinated and positive image to the public so that VŠE fulfils the role of recognized and esteemed academic institution.
On March 25, 2014, the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, appointed Prof. Hana Machková, the President of the University of Economics, Prague, at Prague Castle. The appointment was effective from April 1, 2014.
Ing. Ladislav Tyll, MBA, Ph.D. appointed as a new academic director of the CEMS Programme
On July 1, 2014, Ing. Ladislav Tyll, MBA, Ph.D. was appointed as a new academic director of the CEMS MIM Programme. This position was previously held by doc. Ing. Jiří Hnilica, Ph.D., who currently serves as a Vice-Rector for International Relations and Information Systems.
Ing. Ladislav Tyll, MBA, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and a deputy of Chairman of the Department of Business Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Economics, Prague. Mr. Tyll professionally specializes in international strategies, international outsourcing and offshoring, corporate strategies and business plan evaluation. Mr. Tyll is concurrently the academic director of foreign-language bachelor’s programs Corporate Finance and Management taught in English and Russian languages (CFM and EPM) at the Faculty of Business Administration.
