Ján Šebo

University professor Ján Šebo, Ph.D. is with the Faculty of the Social and Economic Sciences since 2024. He also works as a senior research fellow at the Office of the Slovak Government, where he participates at the analytical works related to the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia. He received his Ph.D. from the University Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica. Over the course of his academic career he worked at several academic institutions (University Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Masaryk University in Brno, Slovak Academy of Sciences). As an expert on pension systems he cooperated with several international organizations (Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group and  Costs and Past Performance of Pension Product at the EIOPA), and served as member of the scientific boards (BetterFinance in Brussels).

His key areas of research include topics in public economics and fiscal policy, with a particular focus on modelling costs of pension systems. He was the co-founder of the Orange Envelope (Oranžová obálka) initiative, a personalized private money management tool, and served as its head of research. 

At the Institute of Economics, he teaches the following courses:

• Models of economic policies
• Risk management
• Practicum II
• Basics of programming