Jiří Pehe.

Jiri Pehe is Director of NYU Prague and a faculty member at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University in New York. From September 1997 to May 1999, he was Director of the Political Department of Czech President Vaclav Havel and later served as President Havel's adviser. Previously he served as Director of Central European Research at the Research Institute of RFE/RL in Munich, Germany He is a political analyst and the author of six books on politics as well as five novels. He has written extensively on developments in Eastern Europe for American, Czech, and German periodicals and academic journals.