Michal
Prause

I come from Hronov, a small town in eastern Bohemia. After graduating from the Jirásek Gymnasium in Náchod, I started a Bachelor's degree in Economics at the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University. My big goal was to go abroad for a semester, which I did twice. I went to the University of Limerick in Ireland for a semester as part of the Erasmus programme and the following semester I studied at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the USA thanks to an inter-university agreement of Charles University. I completed my undergraduate studies with honours in June 2015 with a thesis on theoretical models of pay-to-play lobbying. Since September 2015, I have been studying for an MSc in Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

I am very grateful to the Martina and Tomas Krsek Foundation for their generous financial support, without which I would not have been able to afford my studies at Oxford. My interests include ice hockey, debating competitions and running.