PFI
Talks

The Prague Finance Institute regularly brings you interviews with leading experts from both local and global perspectives.

Episodes with global experts are hosted by Leoš Rousek, Head of Group Communications at PPF Group and former Head of the Wall Street Journal for the CEE region. Episodes in Czech are hosted by Adam Páleníček, Member of the Board at PFI and M&A manager at KPMG.

PFI Talks Vol. 48 – Martin
Daunton

"The World Is Breaking into Blocs."

PFI Talks Vol. 47 – Michael
Sonenscher

"Money really is the thing that makes the modern world go around."

PFI Talks Vol. 46 – Jon Spencer

"Risk and reward will always be linked. And if they aren't, someone is lying to you."

PFI Talks Vol. 45 – John Kay

"The most profitable companies are not the most profit-oriented."

PFI Talks Vol. 44 – Paul Collier

"To be profitable is a necessary condition, but it's not the purpose of a company."

PFI Talks Vol. 43 – George Selgin

What really ended the Great Depression

PFI Talks Vol. 42 – Carmen
Reinhart

Why Global Debt Is Becoming Dangerous Again

PFI Talks Vol. 41 – Morgan Housel

"Most people massively overestimate how happy money will make them."

Leoš Rousek

Leos works as Head of Group Communications at PPF Group, focusing on investor relations in the financial sector. His previous experience included investor communications at Home Credit International and MONETA Money Bank. Before 2015, he used to work for more than two decades as a business journalist for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, reporting from the Czech Republic, Russia, Slovenia, and Slovakia. From 2017 to 2019, he was the chief economic analyst at the Czech business daily Hospodářské noviny.

Štěpán Drábek

Štěpán is the head of the analytical team at ECONET, the association of winners of the Economics Olympiad. He is also an analyst at the Centre for Economic and Market Analysis (CETA) and a researcher at the Institute of Liberal Studies. Štěpán is the founder of the project Economics Simply ("Ekonomie Jednoduše"), which aims to increase economic literacy among the younger generation. He is the author of a book on the inflation surge in the Czech Republic, which was awarded the prestigious Prize of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. Thanks to this work, he became the youngest member of the Czech Economic Society. In his spare time, he translates important texts on economics, primarily those by F. A. Hayek, and helps popularize economic science.