Luděk Sekyra

Luděk Sekyra is a leading Czech businessman, chairman of The Sekyra Foundation, and owner of the Sekyra Group, one of the largest real estate development companies in Central and Eastern Europe. The company focuses primarily on investments in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.

Luděk Sekyra graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, where he was a research fellow and studied legal philosophy. His main interests are moral and political philosophy, as well as support of civil society. He is currently working on a book on the theory of reciprocity. His Foundation supports the University of Oxford and Harvard University and co-founded the Centre for Philosophy, Ethics and Religion at Charles University in Prague. The Foundation is also a partner of the Václav Havel Library in Prague and is one of the most important supporters of moral and political philosophy in the world.  The Sekyra Foundation also endowed the oldest professorship of philosophy at the University of Oxford, which was established in 1621 and renamed the Sekyra and White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy on the occasion of its 400th anniversary.

Luděk Sekyra is a member of the Vice Chancellor’s Circle at the University of Oxford and also a Foundation Fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Aristotelian Society and the American Political Science Association.