Martin Pelucha

Background

About Martin Pelucha

Martin Pelucha (*1980) is a professor of economic policy at the Prague University of Economics and Business and an expert in the field of regional and rural development policy evaluation. During his career he has been the coordinator or member of a number of research projects in the field of programme evaluation and evaluation methodology design (for Czech Science Foundation, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, European Commission, Czech Ministry of Regional Development, Czech Ministry of Environment, Regional Authorities of Czech Coal Regions, etc.). Prof. Martin Pelucha is a national ambassador of the RSA – Regional Studies Association in the Czech Republic and a member of the Czech Evaluation Society. His experience and professional knowledge are richly complemented by several internships abroad (Great Britain, Germany, Norway, Kazakhstan). Within his current scientific work, Prof. Martin Pelucha has long been engaged in the evaluation of public spending programmes financed from national and European sources. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Prague University of Economics and Business, where he obtained his PhD in 2009 in the field of Regional Studies – Public Administration. In 2015, based on a successful habilitation procedure in the field of regional and administrative sciences, he was appointed associate professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business. In June 2022, Martin Pelucha was appointed professor in the field of economic policy. His publishing activities focus on regional policy and in particular on the critical analysis of the place of rural development policy in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (hereafter referred to as the EU CAP). A selection of his publications is listed below on this website. More than 15 papers have been published in journals registered in Web of Science, of which 9 in journals with an above average level of IF in their field (i.e. Q1 and Q2). He is co-author of four monographs related to rural development policy and the conceptualisation of the relevant theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches. He has also co-authored more than 14 monographs and 3 book publications (university textbooks) in the form of partial thematic chapters. Prof. Martin Pelucha also works as a reviewer in some important WoS-registered journals that reach Q1 or Q2, such as Regional Studies, The Social Science Journal, Habitat International, Journal of Rural Studies, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and the journal Statistics.