Aleš Maršál is a Senior Fellow in the Energy Macro & Microeconomics programme at KAPSARC in Riyadh, a Research Fellow at CERGE‑EI, and is currently on a one year sabbatical at the National Bank of Slovakia. His research combines applied AI, quantitative macro‑finance and energy economics. Current projects range from analysis of generative‑AI adoption tracing productivity gains and technology diffusion while also advancing DSGE modelling of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 reforms. Maršál’s academic work includes a stream of papers on nonlinear DSGE modelling, price‑setting friction and term structure models published among others in JMCB, JEDC or Macroeconomic Dynamics. Before joining KAPSARC, he served for 10 years as a Senior Researcher at National Bank of Slovakia, a post‑doctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, a quantitative‑strategy researcher at Wood & Co., led strategic asset allocation at AXA Czech Republic, and headed Risk Management & Portfolio Strategy at the Czech Ministry of Finance. He holds a PhD in Economics from Charles University in Prague and an MA in Economics from Central European University. He has delivered intensive summer school and workshops on applications of generative‑AI in economic research to audiences at the ECB, other European central banks and universities and regional policy institutes across the Middle East; alongside these initiatives, he has spent more than ten years lecturing graduate‑level macroeconomics at the University of Economics in Prague, Charles University, CERGE-EI and Mendel University Brno.
