CEVRO University

CEVRO University (Czech: CEVRO Univerzita) is a private university in Prague, Czech Republic, established in 2005 by CEVRO, a think-tank affiliated with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS).

CEVRO University

CEVRO Univerzita
CEVRO University, Prague
Type	Private
Established	2005
Chairman	Ivan Langer
Rector	Tomáš Jarmara
Director	Martina Děvěrová
Academic staff	163[1]
Students	800[1]
Location	Prague , Czech Republic 50°4′52″N 14°25′20″E
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	www.cevroarena.cz
Website	www.cevro.cz/en/
Data as of 2025[update]

History

The CEVRO Institute (now CEVRO University) was established on 15 September 2005 by CEVRO, a think tank created in 1999 by ODS politician Ivan Langer. The institute's main goal is to provide cross-disciplinary education in the area of social sciences: law, public administration, economics, business, political science, international relations and security. The university's opening ceremony on 1 November 2006 was attended by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek.^[2] The central facility of the CEVRO University is a historic building in the centre of Prague.^[1]

As of 2025, the current president is political scientist Tomáš Jarmara,^[3] and the chairman of the board of directors is Ivan Langer.

Academics

The school offers 14 academic programs, 2 of which are in English.^[4]

Bachelor programs in Czech include: Political Science and International Relations; Public Administration in Practice; Law in Commercial Relations; Security Policy; Applied Economics, Labor Law and Human Resources Management; and Social Services Management. In autumn 2020, the school launched an international B.A. program in Economics, Business, and Politics.^[5]

Master's programs in Czech include: Political Science; Public Administration; Security Management; and Commercial Law Relations. In autumn 2016, the school launched a philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) M.A. program taught in English.^[6] In 2024, the program was accredited into the Economics, Philosophy, and Politics (EPP) Program.^[7]

In 2025, the school launched a doctoral PhD program in Politics and Civil Society in Central Europe.^[8]

The university also offers one MBA program, four MPA programs, two LLM programs, and one PGDJ program,^[9] as well as a summer university program in cooperation with the Centre International de Formation Européenne.^[10]

The institute publishes New Perspectives on Political Economy, a semi-annual, bilingual, interdisciplinary journal focused on private property, market, and individual liberty, and CENTER, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to interdisciplinary research on Central Europe from the 19th century to the present. It is jointly published by the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEVRO University.^[11]

Prague Conference on Political Economy

The Prague Conference on Political Economy (PCPE), an interdisciplinary conference focusing on cross-disciplinary research in the tradition of Philosophy, politics and economics, PPE&L or the Austrian School of Economics, was held from 2005 to 2022, with the CEVRO Institute as the main organiser since 2010.^[12] The event included two memorial lectures, the Franz Cuhel Memorial Lecture and Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Lecture.^[13]

Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize recipients include: Jörg Guido Hülsmann (2005), Jesús Huerta de Soto (2006), Richard Ebeling (2007), Thomas DiLorenzo (2008), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2009), Peter Boettke (2011), William White (2015), Benjamin Powell (2016), Jeffrey Tucker (2017), and Randall G. Holcombe (2019).^{[citation needed]}

Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Prize recipients include: Robert Higgs (2006), Boudewijn Bouckaert (2007), Bruno Frey (2008), Richard Epstein (2010), Terry L. Anderson (2011), Michael Munger (2014), Mark Pennington (2016), Bruce Caldwell (2017), Leszek Balcerowicz (2018).^{[citation needed]}

Notable people

Faculty

• Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University, and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute^[14]
• Michael Munger, professor of economics at Duke University and adjunct scholar at Cato Institute
• David Schmidtz, professor of Philosophy
• Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and senior fellow at the Independent Institute
• Peter Boettke, professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University; Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center
• Cyril Svoboda, former Czech deputy prime minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and head of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
• Boudewijn Bouckaert, professor of law, former Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ghent
• Alexandr Vondra, former Czech minister, former Ambassador to the United States, former adviser to President Václav Havel
• Magdaléna Vášáryová, former Ambassador of Czechoslovakia in Austria (1990-1993) and ambassador of Slovakia in Poland (2000-2005)
• Tara Smith, professor of Philosophy
• Michael Žantovský, former Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Kingdom, as well as to Israel and the United States.

Alumni

• Pavel Bělobrádek, deputy prime minister of Science and Research in the cabinet of the Czech Republic
• Vít Jedlička, Czech politician, president self-declared libertarian micronation Liberland