Dana Pražáková is an expert in education policy. She has experience from different worlds of education: she gained teaching practice as a teacher at a secondary school and a language school, and she also spent many years involved in home education. Since 2009, she has worked in public administration, first at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports as a lead for regional education with a focus on the European Social Fund (ESF), and since 2016 at the Czech School Inspectorate. Today she heads a department in the Office of the Chief School Inspector. She enjoys finding connections, following educational trends and turning strategies into concrete steps.