Once a month, Jan Svejnar, executive director of the William Davidson Institute and the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, meets over lunch with Czech president Vaclav Havel to discuss major economic and strategic issues relating to the Czech Republic. The Czech-born Svejnar, who fled the country’s communist government with his family in 1970, has served as Havel’s economic adviser since 1995.
The day after the debate, Havel called Svejnar and asked him to be his economic adviser. Though Svejnar was concerned that he would not be able to travel to the Czech Republic more than a few times a month, Havel was satisfied with a monthly meeting in Prague. Svejnar and Havel have adhered to this agreement since that time. Havel’s term as president runs through 2003; he began a two-term sequence when he was elected president of the new Czech Republic in 1993.
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