He is also a founder and chairman of CERGE-EI in Prague (a joint workplace of the Charles University in Prague and Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic that offers an American-style Ph.D. program in economics that educates the new generation of economists for Central-East Europe and the Newly Independent States).

He also served as the chairman of the Supervisory Board of ČSOB Bank (until November 2007) and co-editor of the Economics of Transition.

Since 2007, he is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).

In 2012, Švejnar was honored with a Neuron Prize for lifelong achievement from the Karel Janeček Endowment for Research and Science.

On December 14, 2007, he announced his candidacy for the position of Czech president in the upcoming indirect presidential election.