Igor Kotlán is a professor of Economics and management and a senior lecturer in the fields of economic policy, economic governance, taxation, national social and labour law, management and public finance at the PRIGO University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Economics at the VSB - Technical University in Ostrava and at the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, obtaining a Ph.D. in both Economics and Public law. Furthermore, he obtained his associate proffesorship degree at the Faculty of Economics at the VSB - Technical University in Ostrava and has been named professor in the field of Economics and management by the president of the Czech Republic in 2014, following a proceeding at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Mendel University in Brno. Prof. Kotlán is the Chair of Academic Board, Guarantor of the Master’s degree study programme Economic Policy and Public Administration and Guarantor of Professional managerial study programmes at PRIGO University, and the Chair of Strategic Board of the PRIGO Group. He has extensive experience from both academia and top management. He is a respected author of more than a hundred publications, from which more than forty consist of impact-factor academic journals, journals included in the Scopus database or collections in the Web of Science database. He is also a lead researcher of scientific projects financed by the Czech Science Foundation or the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.