Jiří Nantl is the Director of the Central European Institute of Technology at Masaryk University. He had previously served in a number of positions involved in respect of educational and science policy, including as First Deputy Minister of Education.  He was a principal architect of the Strategy of the Educational Policy of the Czech Republic up to the year 2020 and contributed to the preparations of changes in university legislation and the implementation of new models of support for the quality of universities. He has been involved conceptually in the creation of the National Register of Qualifications as an instrument for communication between the educational system and practice. Among other things, he also served as Vice-Chairman of the Council of Higher Education, member of the National Council for Qualifications, and member of the Committee for Educational Policy of OECD. He inspired the foundation of the Alliance4Life, a network of research institutes across Central and Eastern Europe, and has been the Chair of this Alliance since 2018. In November 2020 he has been elected as Deputy Governor of the South Moravia Region.

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