Our team

PhDr. Miloš Balabán, Ph.D.

Chairman

Chairman and Security analyst of the Prague Security Conference, a registered association. Graduated from the Military Academy, between 1983 and 2001 served in the Czechoslovak/Czech Armed Forces (Reserve Colonel). In 2000 completed post-graduate PhD study at the Institute of International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, Since 2001. Since 2005 to 2019, Head of the Centre of Security Policy at the Charles University. His research focuses on Czech, European and Asian security, political, economic and security aspects of the global transformation of power and influence. He also authored and co-authored several books, incl. Chapters on Security (2007, 2010, 2022), Non-Western Actors of the World Security (2010), Strategic Trends of the Global Development (2012) and The Security System of the Czech Republic: problems and challenges (2015). He regularly publishes comments in the Právo daily.

Ing. Mirka Kortusová 

Vice Chairwoman

Mirka graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Žilina in 1995. After completing her studies, she joined the Municipality of Chomutov, where in 1999-2002 she was the Head of the Transport and services department. In the years 2006 – 20019, she worked at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University as a project and financial manager of research projects of the Center for Security Policy. Now she is the project and financial manager of PSC. Coordinates accredited training courses in the field of crisis management.

PhDr. Libor Stejskal, Ph.D.

Vice Chairman

Security analyst of the Prague Security Conference, a registered association. He has devoted himself to security policy, its social, economic and environmental aspects, the protection of the population, vulnerability and resilience. He deals with trends in the modernization and use of the armed forces and the security impacts of climate change, in 2011 he participated in drafting the White Book on the Defense of the Czech Republic. In 2008-2009, he worked in the civilian part of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Logar Province, Afghanistan. His research on the history of the Czechoslovak army in the 1930s resulted in a successful book about 1938 in northern Bohemia. Libor develops and offers training courses in the field of crisis management.

Mgr. Ing. Bohuslav Pernica, Ph.D.

Expert

Bohuslav is a lieutenant colonel ret., an expert in planning, budgeting, and HR in the security sector; a co-editor of the White Paper on Defence 2011. He graduated from the University of Ground Forces in Vyškov in military economics (Ing., Ph.D.) and from the Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague, in sociology - public and social policy (Mgr.). He was deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina, HQ EUFOR Althea, Sarejevo, as SME in ammunition and weapons storage management who coordinated Austrian, Swiss, and Swedish teams delivering training to the BIH ́s Armed Forces. In his research, he deals with issues of defence and security industry, civil-military relation, All-Voluntary Forces, and corruption in the security sector. He is an author of four books analysing deficiencies in Czech defence and security policy.