People behind

Tomas Motl, Executive director and Developer

Tomas has spent the past ten years developing macroeconomic and macroprudential models. Working with central banks across the globe, he learnt how to apply theoretical modeling concepts in real-life situations and produce policy-relevant outputs. Tomas has a strong teaching aptitude and leads regular classes on Macroeconomic Modeling at Masaryk University, the second-largest university in the Czech Republic.

Jaromir Benes, Board of directors and Developer

In the last two decades of his professional career, Jaromir has worked for, and collaborated with, a number of central banks and international institutions (including the IMF, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Czech National Bank), helping them implement analytical and forecasting frameworks and processes to support monetary and macroprudential policy. He is also the lead developer of the Iris Toolbox.

Zdenek Tuma, Board of directors

Zdenek is Chairman of Supervisory Board of CSOB (KBC Group), member of Presidium of the Czech Banking Association, associate professor at Charles University, member of the Board of Directors of Global Institute for Macroprudential Modeling, former President of the Czech Economic Association.

Ondrej Kamenik, Board of directors

Ondra worked as a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department, where he helped build the forecasting infrastructure. He was among those who developed and deployed the IMF’s Global Projection Model and Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model, and co-authored the Dynare++ software. Ondra also worked for the Czech National Bank’s Modeling Division for several years and assisted a number of other central banks in implementing macroeconomic models and forecasting systems. Ondra is currently senior partner at OGResearch.