Dr. Tomás Sedláček

Chief Economist at ČSOB

Dr. Tomás Sedláček is a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at ČSOB, one of the largest Czech banks. He is a member of Program Council for New Economic Thinking of the World Economic Forum and was a member of an advisory body to EU President Barroso on a New Narrative for Europe.

"A challenging expert on economics"

Topics

Economics Trends
Ethics and Values
Europe
Globalisation
Philosophy of Economics

Languages

He presents in Czech and English.

How he presents

His expertise and unorthodox presentations make Tomás Sedláček an acclaimed commentator at renowned conferences around the globe.

Publications

2011
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest For Economic Meaning From Gilgamesh to Wall Street

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In Detail

Tomás Sedlácek described by The Yale Economic Review as one of the five most influential minds in his field worked as an economic advisor to President Václav Havel and latter to the Minister of Finance. He is mainly known for ‘Economics of Good and Evil’, a book on philosophy of economics, an international bestseller, which received positive critics from academic as well as popular press. The book has received one of the most prestigious literary prizes in economics, Frankfurt book fair prize for the best book on economics in 2012. In it he has argued against the traditional view of economics as a value-free mathematical process. He is a regular weekly columnist of the top Czech business newspaper and a frequent commentator of public affairs and frequent panellist.

What he offers you

In his presentations Tomás Sedláček gives a fresh and unconventional look into economics as part of our culture. He suggests that in order to be of real value, economics should not only concern itself with abstract mathematical modelling, but also with societies’ culture and values.