International Economic Relations

M.A., University of York, UK
B.A., International University Bremen (Jacobs University), Germany

Juraj Draxler holds an M.A. in Comparative Politics from the University of York and a B.A. in Integrated Social Sciences from International University Bremen (today Jacobs University). Currently he is in advanced stage of his Ph.D. thesis on new theoretical approaches to the welfare state at the University of Lancaster. He is Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Mr. Draxler specializes in European politics and in social policy. In the last years he has produced a good number of articles on the reform of pension systems in Europe and on social policy. He also has rich professional experience in public relations and journalism. Mr. Draxler has been part of the Department of International and Economic Relations at UNYP since 2007.

Lenka Eisenhamerová

M. E. S., Aachen University, Germany
M.A., Maastricht University, the Netherlands
B.A., University of New York in Prague, Czech Republic

Before starting to teach at UNYP, Lenka Eisenhamerová worked as a researcher at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (Maastricht University) in the Netherlands, where she is just finalizing her PhD focused on the effectiveness of ‘humanitarian’ military interventions. She earned her Bachelor degree at the University of New York in Prague (major International European Economic studies) and a double Master degree at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the Aachen University in Germany (major European Integration).

Jakub Lepš

Mgr. (M.A.) - Charles University, Czech Republic
M.A. - Central European University, Hungary
Bc. (B.A.) - Charles University, Czech Republic

Jakub Lepš teaches a course focused on the social and economic contexts of globalization. In 2008 he taught an intensive summer course at UNYP dealing with modern China. Since 2000 he has taught a course on Sino-American relations at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University, where he obtained his M.A. in American studies as well as his B.A. (at the Institute of Economic Studies). He also studied at Central European University in Budapest (M.A. in Political Science) and spent one year at The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs as a researcher within the Fulbright Scholar Program. For over a decade he has also worked in the media monitoring industry.

Attila Pató

Ph.D. Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary
M.A., Szeged University, Szeged,Hungary

ATTILA PATÓ was born in Romania, moved to Hungary in 1984, resident in Czech Republic since 2007, lecturer at Charles University, Prague. Attila Pató received his postgraduate degree in Philosophy (PhD thesis on the concept of public space in Hannah Arendt’s political thought, Debrecen University, Hungary), also holds an MA in History (Szeged University, Hungary). He worked for 10 years at Szeged University (Special Collection in Social Theories). In the meanwhile he also gained NGO experience in a borderland area including cities with a variety of cultures, such as Timişoara, Novi Sad. He was a fellow researcher at KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy (1997, 1999).   He is a representative of the Hungarian Philosophical Society at the International Philosophical Olympiads. His interest in scientific work includes conference lectures, publishing studies and essays, as well as editing volumes (Glossary of Plural Societies, bi-lingual edition in Hungarian and Romanian), or translations (e.g. Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt). Attila Pató is an editorial board member of Habitus (a quarterly journal in social and culture, published in Novi Sad, Serbia); also member of Ex Symposion editorial board, publishing literature and philosophical essays. 

Jacques Regniez

M.A., Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France

Since 1997 an Associate Professor at Université Paris 2 (Center for Research and Higher Education Sorbonne  Universités) where he teaches International Monetary Theory  and Financial Markets at Masters 2  level,  Pr . Ing. Jacques Regniez, is an economist who in addition to a Masters with Honor from Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne University was trained as an Engineer in Statistics and Economics at the French Post-Graduate elite public service school Ecole nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique. The author or co-author of six books,  several official reports and many articles,  with a diversified experience both in France and in the USA, in the academic world as well as in the fields of economic policy (as Deputy head of the Economic Policy Bureau in the French Ministry of Economics and Finance then  as a Scientific Advisor to the French Prime Minister’s Planning Agency) , financial markets regulation and surveillance (as Head of Research for the French Financial Market Authority), investment (as Independent Director of a NYSE listed US Investment Company)  and banking (as CEO of a credit bank), Jacques has been coopted as a Qualified University Professor by the French National Council of Universities in April 2002. He has joined UNYP in 2010 where he lectures on Public Sector and Public Policy.

Art Schankler

MBA, Columbia University, US
A.B., Princeton University, US

Art Schankler teaches a course in American Government and Politics at UNYP.  He has over 20 years experience working with governments around the world in the financing of infrastructure projects.  He spent eight years with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, Prague, and Belgrade.  He also has experience in Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Montenegro.  Prior to joining the EBRD, he worked for an investment bank in New York City.   He has also served as a consultant to USAID and the World Bank.  After graduating from Princeton, he taught at a university in Singapore and worked on refugee assistance programs in Japan, Indonesia and East Africa.   Mr. Schankler worked on a (losing) U.S. presidential campaign and is currently active in voter participation efforts for American citizens living in the Czech Republic.  He has appeared on Czech television several times to discuss American politics.   He majored in East Asian Studies at Princeton and received his MBA, with a specialization in Finance, from Columbia Business School in New York.

Jan Záhořík

Ph.D., Charles University, Czech Republic.

  Jan Záhořík is an Africanist, teacher at UNYP, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and a researcher at Charles University, Prague. He earned his Ph.D. in African Studies at Charles University, Prague. He did his bachelor and master studies in Cultural Anthropology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His research is focused on socio-political development of contemporary Ethiopia, modern history of Ethiopia, conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has published numerous articles and two books on these issues. His works in progress include chapters in monographs (e.g. Routledge, forthcoming), monographs (e. g. Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming; Karolinum, forthcoming), etc.