Assoc. prof. Ing. Jarmila ZimmermannovΓ‘, Ph.D. habilitated at the University of Economics in Prague in 2017 in the field of finance. From 2003 to 2009 she worked in various positions at the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, most recently as Deputy Director of the Department of Sustainable Energy and Transportation and Head of the Department of Environmental Tax Reform and Transportation. She represented the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic in the OECD Working Group – Joint Meetings of Tax and Environment Experts. From 2011 to 2022, she worked in various positions at the Moravian Business College Olomouc, in particular as Rector, Vice-Rector for Science and Research and associate professor at the Department of Economics and the Department of Sustainable Development.
Currently, she works at Palacky University in Olomouc. She is also Vice-Dean for International Relations and Internationalisation. In the field of bioeconomics, she is the leader of the Socio-Economic Section of the Platform for Bioeconomy (Czech Republic) and from March 2022 also a member of the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) Scientific Committee.
Her main areas of expertise are public economics, public finance, environmental economics, and the impact of financial and economic policy instruments. She is the author of a number of scientific articles and a monograph. She has lectured internationally at universities in Hungary (Budapest Business School), Germany (Hochschule Nordhausen, Duale Hochschule Villingen Schwenningen, Ruhr UniversitΓ€t Bochum), Slovenia (University of Maribor), the Netherlands (Utrecht University), Israel (Kinneret Academic College; online), China (Dalian Minzu University; online), Spain (Rovira i Virgili University), and Taiwan (National Infectious Diseases Bank; online).