Filip Zelenka is a journalist who studied political science and international relations in Brno. He gained his first experience during his studies, first as an analyst for Demagog.cz, then as a writer for The Student Times website. After working for the weekly magazine Euro, he moved to the economic daily E15, where he won the 2024 Journalism Award in the economic journalism category for his comprehensive comparison of the Czech Republic and Poland. In the same year, he joined the Respekt magazine, where he focuses on domestic and international economic topics, as well as politics, to which he has long been closely connected.