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Vladimír Pikora (born 3 August 1977, Prague) is a Czech financial market analyst and macroeconomist. He is the chief economist in Next Finance consulting company.
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Life
Vladimír Pikora graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, where he was awarded the title of Ph.D. During his studies, he participated in a number of study visits abroad. He successfully passed broker exams. In 2001, the B. I. G. agency awarded him for the preciseness of his forecasts. He is well-known to the public thanks to his publications. In 2005, the weekly Týden named him the most quoted Czech analyst in the media. From 2000 to 2006, Mr Pikora worked as the chief economist in Volksbank. Since 2006 he has been the chief economist in Next Finance, s.r.o., consulting company, where he acts as the CEO and a partner. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Czech Export Bank (Česká komerční banka) since 2015. He is married to Markéta Šichtařová, also an economist (the founder of Next Finance), with 4 children. Together, they actively point out problems concerning, among other things, the pension reform (2011) and its eventual impacts on people.