Jiri Branka – analyst/expert of National Observatory of Employment and Training. He is a specialist in forecasting of future changes in both industry and services sectors and their impact on demand for qualified labour force. He develops methodologies for qualitative forecasting of skill needs on sectoral and regional level and as a project manager coordinates elaboration of research studies. He was project manager and coordinator on sectoral studies in Power supply industry (2007), Electronics/Electroengineering industry (2008) and ICT services (2008) in the Czech Republic.