Knihová is an Assistant Professor at �������� and also teaches at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Czech Technical University in Prague. At ��������, she teaches Digital Skills & AI for Business, Marketing Communications, Buyer Behavior, and Marketing Research, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between marketing, technology, and contemporary educational practice.

Knihová’s professional experience also includes several years at Harley-Davidson Prague, where she worked closely with the marketing and communication department, focused on content marketing, and led staff training initiatives. In addition to her academic work, she has many years of experience in diplomacy and in business practice, particularly in the SME sector in engineering and trade.

Her research and professional interests focus primarily on digital marketing, AI applications in marketing and education, immersive marketing, marketing communication, and the integration of technology into teaching and learning. Knihová has authored more than 70 scholarly and professional publications, edited two professional books, and she regularly participates in international academic conferences. Among her recent major projects are the book AI Marketing Playbook: Jak ChatGPT a umělá inteligence mění svět marketingu (AI Marketing Playbook: How ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence Are Changing the World of Marketing) and the Czech translation of Philip Kotler’s Marketing 6.0. Her current work explores the role of artificial intelligence in marketing practice, higher education, and the development of innovative teaching methods.

Dr. Joch is Chairman and Executive Director of the Civic Institute, a Prague-based think tank. He was International Secretary of ODA, a political party (1994–98), and an Assistant to a Senator (2001–04) in the Czech Republic. He served as an Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (Human Rights and Foreign Policy, 2010–12), Adviser to the Lord Mayor of Prague (2012–14), and Adviser to the Member of the European Parliament (2017).

In addition to being Chairman and Director of the Civic Institute, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Economics and at CEVRO University, both in Prague. He is the author of several books and essays on political philosophy and public policy, a contributor to Czech and Slovak media, and a regular columnist for the Czech daily Lidovky.cz and Slovak daily Postoj.sk, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Aspen Review Central Europe. Among his books are The Revolt Against the Revolution of the 20th Century, No, Mr. Prime Minister!, and On the Side of Freedom.

Svobodová started her career in the Parliamentary Institute, Parliament of the Czech Republic. She served as a legal advisor in the area of approximation of laws during the process of accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. Later, she worked in law firms and focused on civil law and commercial law. She passed the bar examination in 2012; she is an attorney-at-law registered with the Czech Bar Association under number 14205. In 2012, she started her academic career at Metropolitan University Prague. Since 2015, she has been a lecturer at Charles University, Faculty of Law, Department of European Law. She became a lecturer and a guarantor at �������� in 2026. Svobodová is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law, Charles University. She specializes in EU law, in particular in Union citizenship, free movement of persons and fundamental rights protection in the EU. She is a member of Czech Association of European Studies. 

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He brings international experience in media production, having produced and edited social justice documentaries in Kenya and Brazil, as well as university and digital media projects. His work also includes contributions to productions in the United States in collaboration with PBS FRONTLINE and Alkemy X, supporting award-winning content.

After graduating, Joe was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to the Czech Republic, where he taught in Zlín at a secondary film school. After a year immersed in the Czech creative and academic environment, he relocated to Prague to continue his work in media.

At Anglo-American University, Joe develops and produces content that supports the university’s marketing and communications efforts, with a focus on impactful storytelling and audience engagement.

Since 2007, Říhová has been a member of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and she lectured at a variety of both public and private universities. She also served as a director of PSCC. In 2014, she became Head of Czech at Oxford University, and she was a visiting professor at Columbia University (2018–19). She has completed several internships abroad (SUNY, University of Glasgow, University College London, Humboldt Univerzität zu Berlin); she is regularly invited to give public or university lectures (Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Vienna, Oxford University, Bohemian National Hall, New York).

At ��������, Říhová teaches classes on modernism (Modernist Metropolis) and creative writing – writing fiction is her passion. When she isn’t writing, she lifts kettlebells, runs, and picks mushrooms with her two daughters.

Specializations: avant-garde and modernism, creative writing and storytelling

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Herrer also worked as a Spanish lecturer in higher education from 2022 to 2024 at Anglo-American University and at University of New York in Prague (UNYP). During this period, she completed a Master’s degree in Spanish Language Teacher Education at Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo. In the 2024–2025 academic year, she served as a Spanish lecturer at the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam, as part of the MAEC-AECID Lectorship Programme. Since returning to Prague in 2026, she remains actively involved in teacher training and professional conferences, with academic interests in pragmatics, cognitive grammar, and gamification.

His research is conducted on rats and humans in an attempt to understand how the brain and its neurochemical systems are organized for basic sexual responses such as arousal, desire, sexual pleasure and orgasm, and sexual inhibition and disgust. His work has illuminated the neural and molecular mechanisms by which conditioned sexual responses potentiate sexual preferences and reproduction and how they contribute to the development of fetishes and paraphilias. He has received several prestigious international awards for this work.

He has published more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters on the neurobiology of sexual behavior in women and men, and his work has led to the development of new drugs to treat sexual dysfunctions and ways to offset the effects of medications that have debilitating side effects on sexuality. He has given hundreds of interviews on television, radio, and social media, and his work has been featured in films and documentaries. He is the editor-in-chief of Current Sexual Health Reports, an associate editor of Sexual Medicine Reviews and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, a former associate editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, and he serves on the editorial boards of other scientific journals in the fields of sexuality, neuroscience, and pharmacology. He is a member of several international organizations, including the International and Europeans Societies for Sexual Medicine, the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, Society for Neuroscience, and International Academy of Sex Research (where he served as president from 2016-2017). 

She has led multiple grant-funded projects on olfactory perception, developmental psychology, and affective processes. Her research has been published in leading international journals and has contributed to advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of sensory processes within psychology and behavioral sciences. She is an active member of several international professional societies dedicated to chemosensory science and human ethology, including the European Chemoreception Research Organization.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, reading popular cosmology books, practicing aromachology, and pole dancing.

In her role as Assistant Dean and Lecturer at Anglo-American University, she works closely with students to support academic progression and personal development in an international learning environment, helping them cultivate the skills and mindset needed for academic success.

As a mental-health counsellor, she has assisted others through life transitions, existential crises, and personality realignment. With her clients, she explores core life concerns through positive, transformative processes of emotional healing, self-discovery, and personal growth.