Michael Jetton has been with the CERGE-EI Foundation since 2000. He is responsible for administering the Teaching Fellows Program, and between 2000-2017 he also administered the Regional Research Competition funded by the Global Development Network. He has an undergraduate degree in Government and Politics from George Mason University. In 1997 he earned an MSc degree in European Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has lived in Prague since 1993.