Speaker

Danuše Nerudová is an economist, professor and Rector Emeritus of Mendel University in Brno (2018-2022). In her professional career, she focuses mainly on taxes, pensions and equal opportunities for women and men. Since 2018, she has chaired the Commission for Fair Pensions, which presented a proposal for pension reform with broad professional and political consensus. In April 2020, together with other economists, she founded the civic initiative KoroNERV-20. She ran in the 2023 presidential election, finishing third and winning the largest support for a female candidate in history. Political analysts appreciated her modern campaign with many innovative elements and the opening of important issues (support for innovation, the importance of education, equal opportunities or nature protection) in the public debate. In June 2024, she was elected to the European Parliament on behalf of STAN. She and her husband Robert have two sons and live in Brno.