Dr Alex Klein, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School, has been appointed by the Council for Research, Development and Innovation (CRDI), an advisory body to the Government of the Czech Republic, as a panel member of the Verification and Review Panel for Research Assessment (Oborový verifikační a hodnotící panel (OVHP) in Czech).
The purpose of the panel is to assess the quality of research conducted at Czech research institutions, and is an equivalent of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the UK.