Dr. Eva Kotlánová is a senior lecturer at the School of Business Administration at the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic, and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Czech branch of Transparency International specializing in corruption. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics of VSB - Technical University in Ostrava with a major in National Economy, where she also obtained her Ph.D. In her research, she deals with the issue of corruption and its impact on the long-term economic growth and other economic variables.