AmCham Board Priorities: Munir Nanji, Citi, and the next wave of Czech prosperity
What new technologies will deliver the next pulse of Czech prosperity?
Who benefits most from the global economy increasingly depends on who can master the process of turning knowledge into idea into concept into technology into product into global sales again and again and again.
Since most new technology is based on a foundation of current technology, countries that possess the skills to develop a wide portfolio of current technologies. Once you have enough of these capabilities, you possess the critical mass needed to generate sparks that connect that knowledge in new ways to create incremental or exponential leaps.
That is why when AmCham is asked what we would do if we crafted economic policy we always reply “get more key technology”. When asked which technologies we suggest the ones that will make major investments in the public and private research infrastructure. That is the Big Bet. The government bets that investment will create multiple other successful technologies in the future. The universities and public researchers bet that working on those projects will advance their scientific understanding so they compete against the best labs in the world. And the companies bet their future on Czechia delivering the mindpower essential to competing against their rivals.
AmCham board Munir Nanji of Citi finances companies across the region. He knows where government policy and entrepreneurial ambition are generating the most interesting opportunities for investment. We are going to be working with him to circle a few interesting areas to watch at our 2026 Business Outlook on September 16th.
“We should forget the idea of being the next Silicon Valley. Replication never works,” Nanji says. “We have a tremendous corridor of talent in developing technology running from Brno to Prague. How do we make it Europe’s Digital Corridor?”