He is President of the CERGE-EI Foundation,[2] a US-based nonprofit that supports economic education in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Professor Filer serves as the Eastern European Coordinator of the Global Development Network (GDN),[3] and is a member (past Chair) of the International Faculty Committee at the International School of Economics in Tbilisi (ISET) in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Professor Filer received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979 where he was affiliated with the Industrial Relations Section and the Office of Population Research.
Founded during the anti-communist movement, the Prague Society is one of the oldest NGOs in the Czech Republic.
It pursues former Members of the Communist Era Secret Police (StB, Stasi, Służba Bezpieczeństwa, ÁVO, Securitate and others), fights corruption and helps to develop a new generation of responsible leaders in Central and Eastern Europe.