Hynek Strakoš

Hynek Strakoš is President of the Institute for Advanced Dynamic Uncertainty, responsible for the overall strategic direction of the institution, its governance framework, and its standing relationships with central banks, finance ministries, sovereign wealth funds, and peer research organisations worldwide. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics and Distribution Theory from Univerzita Karlova — Charles University Prague (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics), where his doctoral research addressed characterisation problems for parametric families of distributions and the asymptotic properties of estimators under dependent sampling regimes.

His early career was spent at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he applied distribution-theoretic and inferential methods to the analysis of economic and financial data. This work brought him into sustained contact with policy institutions — central banks, statistical agencies, and finance ministries — that required rigorous quantitative analysis but operated without access to the mathematical expertise capable of providing it at the level the problems demanded. The gap he encountered was not one of data or computing capacity, but of analytical foundations: the institutions making consequential decisions were not equipped with the mathematical tools that would have made those decisions tractable.

He subsequently held a visiting fellowship at the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, where he contributed to work on statistical methodology for monetary policy analysis and engaged with quantitative researchers from central banking institutions across the international community. It was at the BIS that his understanding of that gap — between frontier quantitative mathematics and the sovereign institutions responsible for policy — became precise enough to act on.

As President of IADU, Strakoš sets the scientific and institutional priorities of the organisation, oversees the integrity of its research standards, and leads its engagement with the sovereign institutions it serves.