Zdeněk Tůma

Zdeněk Tůma (born 19 October 1960) is a Czech economist. From 2000 to 2010, he was Governor of the Czech National Bank (CNB). From 2011 to 2019, he worked in the private sector at the audit and consulting firm KPMG Czech Republic. Since 2019, he has been the chair of the supervisory board of the ČSOB Group.

Biography Studies and academia Zdeněk Tůma was born on 19 October 1960 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia. he studied at the Faculty of Trade at the University of Economics in Prague from 1979 to 1983, where he was a lecturer for another three years after graduation. In 1986, he joined the Institute of Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as a researcher, where he became head of the Department of Macroeconomics. He was then appointed associate professor there in 1995.

Studying abroad Zdeněk Tůma completed several study stays at foreign universities in the first half of the 1990s:

In politics In the 2010 Prague municipal election, Tůma led TOP 09's candidate list as the party's mayoral candidate. From 2011 to 2012, he was chair of the Finance Committee of Prague City Council. On 15 October 2014, he resigned from TOP 09 due to disputes within the party's Prague organization, and switched his support to the Mayor of Prague, Tomáš Hudeček.

KPMG and ČSOB He returned to the private sector in 2011, to 2019, he was Chairman of the Board of the CERGE-EI Foundation, and since 2021, he has served as a member of the supervisory board of this company. and since the same year he has also been the chairman of the supervisory board of IRQ FUNDS SICAV a.s. Since 2021, he has been a member of the board of directors of the Global Institute for Macroprudential Modeling, z.ú., which deals with macroeconomic analysis and macro-financial modeling. In 2022, he was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Central Bankers. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of The Bakala Foundation, which implements programs and projects aimed at supporting the development of young talents (investigative journalists, independent journalists, aspiring architects, those interested in studying abroad). From 2022 to 2023, he was an economic advisor to the President Petr Pavel during his election campaign. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of K&H Bank in Hungary.