Pavel Petr, PhD

Pavel Petr is a Vice-Dean for Public Relations and Investments at the Faculty of Law of the Palacký University Olomouc and an external member of the Scientific Board of the European Research University. He is also a part-time assistant professor at the ERUNI in the field of private law. He is the first vice-chair of the PRIGO Strategic Board, the highest strategic body of the PRIGO Group, which includes the European Research University. In his research, beside the private law issues, he focuses on law as a scientific discipline and financial and tax law. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University, where he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and obtained his PhD degree. He obtained his advanced Master's degree in Law on the basis of a successful rigorous thesis at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. He obtained his Master of Laws qualification in the joint programme of Masaryk University and Nottingham Trent University. Pavel Petr is an assessor of the National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education in the field of Law. As a long-time HR director and manager of several internationally operating companies, he uses his experience in research on the impact of legislative changes on management in the Czech economy and abroad. He is the author of several monographs and professional articles, which are also registered in internationally recognised databases. He is or has been a principal investigator of basic research projects, including projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation.