Students

Sára Pařilová

Sara is in her second year of the bachelor’s program in International Business at FIR. She has already completed an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies at Masaryk University. Currently, she is also active in the Student Club of Trade and Competitiveness (SKOK). She has participated in a summer school in Suzhou, China, and completed an internship at the governmental agency CzechInvest in Prague. She is interested in China and all of Asia and enjoys traveling, learning foreign languages, and exploring different cultures.

Edita Lichtágová

Edita has been studying a master’s programme in Tourism and Hospitality Management and a minor in Asian Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of Prague University of Business and Economics. She is interested in human resources, sustainability, Asian geopolitics, and tourism innovations. Currently, she is working at Nestlé as an HR Trainee – Learning & Development. Within Asia, Edita focuses on the development of relations between South and North Korea, both before and after the Korean War. She is also interested in China, particularly in its green politics, history, and Confucianism, but also in the Chinese language, which she is studying at the Prague University of Business and Economics.

Marie Havlíková

Ludmila Horáková

Ludmila Horáková is a PhD candidate at the Department of International Economic Relations of the Faculty of International Relations. In her dissertation research, she focuses on structural changes’ dynamics in developing economies, with a focus on the role of the services sector in these dynamics. At present, she works at the Ministry of Industry and Trade as a programme specialist for trade-related development aid programmes Aid for Trade and Aid for Trade Ukraine. She graduated with an International Trade major and Development Studies minor at the Faculty of International Relations. During her master’s studies, she spent her exchange semester in Paris, represented FIR as a speaker at the Retail Summit conference, participated as a mentor in the FIR’s Student mentoring programme, and more. She had worked at the university’s International Office, dealing with student mobilities and related promotion within the university, as well as other internationalization activities. She is interested in developing countries, development economics, and related branches. In the context of Asia, she is mainly interested in developing subregions of South and Southeast Asia or China’s presence in developing regions of the world, especially in Africa.