Petr Zahradník is a Member of the European Economic and Social Committee where he represents the Czech Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Member of the Scientific Council at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics in Prague and from 2001 to 2013 he was lecturing the economy of transformation and integration at New York University. Moreover, he is also a member of the Economic and Strategic Analysis Team in Česká spořitelna (Erste Group).