Jiří Karásek

Jiří Karásek is a senior consultant at SEVEn, where he has been working since 2012. Since 2024 he is the coordinator of the European project LIFE streamSAVE+. He has been coordinating several other international projects on energy efficiency, decarbonisation, education and building energy economics. His main area of expertise is the building sector and the NZEB of buildings in terms of subsidy and support programmes and greenhouse gas emissions. He is a member of the Sustainable Energy Committee, Government Council for Sustainable Development. He has authored numerous technical and scientific articles and studies and has lectured in several countries on the implementation of European directives in the field of energy efficiency. He worked for two and a half years at the State Environmental Fund in the Programme Strategy Division of the Green Investment Scheme Department as a RES and Energy Saving Specialist. In 2005 he graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, continued his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, where in 2012 he successfully defended his dissertation on Energy Efficiency Modelling during the Life Cycle of Buildings. In 2019 he defended his habilitation thesis on the Economic Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Policies in Buildings. He completed a one-year internship at the Fachhochschule Oldenburg in Germany.