Denny Zdenek Kudrna is an economist and political scientist based at Victoria University in Wellington. He taught at the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg and worked for the NZ Productivity Commission, NZ Treasury, IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, the UN Development Programme, and the Czech Ministry of Finance. He has published in high-ranking academic journals such as Governance and Journal of Common Market Studies and has prepared policy briefs for think tanks such as the Atlantic Council and Aspen Institute. He writes op-eds and holds a PhD from Central European University.