Graduated from the Prague School of Economics with M.A. degree and defended a Ph.D. degree in Economics. Received a scholarship for study in Economics, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs, and worked for Solomon Brothers, Inc., Research Department, Emerging Market Group 1991-1992. She has been adviser to Minister of Privatization and consultant to OECD during the transformation of the centrally planned economy into a market economy. Worked on projects within the European Union and The World Bank. She has been lecturing and on study visits in Japan, China, Great Britain and South Africa. Her field is industrial organization, European integration, foreign direct investment and small businesses while focusing on empirical research and policy implications. She was managing and coordinating international and national research projects. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Politicka Ekonomie, and TRANSFER. She served as member of Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy (EAGCP) at DG-Competition, European Commission. She published numerous scientific articles, books and chapters in the books and was appointed as Professor of Economics in 2012. Since 2013 she is member of supervisory board of Phillip Morris CR a.s. and full professor at the Anglo-American University Prague.

Competition Policy (Antitrust), European Integration, State Aid, Foreign Direct Investment, Small and Medium Size Enterprises