Previously, he was a director and founding member of the Prague Conference on Political Economy. Simon earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University and holds an MA in Economics of International Trade and European Integration – a joint degree awarded by a consortium of seven European universities that include Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium) and Staffordshire University (UK). In addition, he holds a master’s degree in Economic Policy from the University of Economics in Prague (Czech Republic). While at George Mason, he was a Mercatus Dissertation Fellow. His primary research focuses on theories of exchange rates, pricing of production factors, and the Austrian school of economics.