Michael Jetton has been with the CERGE-EI Foundation since 2000 and is responsible for administering the Teaching Fellows Program. Between 2000-2017 he also administered the Regional Research Competition funded by the Global Development Network (GDN), a worldwide network of research and policy institutes seeking to make policy-relevant research have a greater impact on policy-makers. (The CERGE-EI Foundation served as the regional hub for Central and South-Eastern Europe.)

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.