Michal Pazour is Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Strategic Studies at the Technology Centre Prague. He specialises in the evaluation, analysis and design of research and innovation policies. He coordinates national projects evaluating research and innovation policies and exploring measures to strengthen national innovation systems. Michal is the author or co-author of numerous analytical and policy studies prepared for the Czech government, the European Commission, the European Parliament, or the OECD. Michal is an enthusiastic advocate of the use of foresight in research and innovation. In 2015 - 2017, Michal was a member of a European Commission expert group on strategic foresight for research and innovation policy. He is a member of the OECD Government Foresight Community, which brings together public sector strategic foresight practitioners from around the world. Since 2020, he has been working with the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade and the JRC to integrate foresight into the processes of developing and implementing smart specialisation strategies. In 2022, he was invited as an expert for the European Commission's mutual learning exercise project on foresight in research and innovation. Before joining the Technology Centre in 2007, Michal worked as an innovation policy analyst at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. Michal holds a PhD in Economic Policy from the University of Economics in Prague.