CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Miroslav Mares (1974) is a professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. He is the guarantor of the master´s program in Security and Strategic Studies. He also works as an independent security consultant. He focuses on research on extremism, terrorism, and security policy in Central and Eastern Europe. He is a co-editor (with Daniel Koehler) of the book “Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond the Ukraine War” (Routledge, 2026) and author or co-author of more than 400 books, chapters, articles, and other publications. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Expert Network on Security Issues (EENeT) and the Research Committee of the European Union Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalization. (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7102-3205) 

Jan Hanousek, Ph.D., is a Professor of Finance at Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic. His research interests include corporate finance, international business, behavioral finance, applied finance, applied public finance, agricultural economics, and economics/econometrics, and his teaching covers corporate finance, data analysis, behavioral finance, econometrics, and applied economics. Professor Hanousek has published in the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economic Perspectives, International Review of Financial Analysis, European Economic Review, Economics of Transition, Journal of Comparative Economics, and other specialized journals. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a visiting professor and research fellow at several prestigious universities, including Princeton University and the University of Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Charles University and an undergraduate degree in probability theory from Charles University.