Biography

Dr. Wadim Strielkowski is a Professor at Prague Business School, a Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Advanced Studies, a Research Fellow at the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, and a Managing Director of the Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement. He holds B.A. and MSc. degrees in Economics (2000 and 2002 respectively) from the Charles University in Prague, MSc. degree in Political economy from the University of Siena (2005), and Ph.D. in Economics (Rural development and Migration) from the National University of Ireland, Galway (2007).
Before taking up his current position(s), he was a i) Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, ii) Research Associate at the Energy Policy Research Group, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, iii) Associate Professor at National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute", iv) Assistant Professor at the Charles University in Prague, v) Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, and vi) Researcher at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He also worked as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Economics and Management, Prague, a Deputy Director for PR and Development at CERGE-EI Prague and a manager of the International Division at the governmental agency Czechtourism.
He conducted consultancy work for the the Polish Institute of International Affairs, UNESCO, CERGE-EI, the EU Commission (he acted as an Independent host country expert in the Peer Review Mutual Learning Programmes 2012, 2016, and 2017 and an expert on energy policy in 2021 and 2022), and the National Science Foundations of Poland, Serbia, and Switzerland. In the past, he worked as a researcher and sub-contractor in several EU-funded projects in FP5 and FP6.
He pursues a multi-disciplinary approach with a number of research topics such as energy economics and policy, eTourism, leadership, labour economics, international migration, as well as scientometrics, bibliometrics, and altmetrics. He is a an editor of books and proceedings on leadership in business and economics published by Springer Nature, and a sole author of "Social Impacts of Smart Grids" published by Elsevier.
Professor Strielkowski is a prolific author publishing in the world’s top scientific journals (e.g. Nature or Science) and one of the most-cited Czech energy economists.
Dr. Strielkowski is among 2% of the world's most cited scientists (a list of over 100,000 top-scientists with a percentile rank of 2% or above) at the prestigious Stanford University ranking which covers all disciplines included in the Scopus database. He also participates in various research projects, conducts fundraising for academic and private organisations, and also works as a private consultant, lecturer, and academic expert.