Trustees and Legal Status

The Prize is administered and awarded by the Board of Trustees. The current membership is:

  • Michael Rundell (chair)
  • Miloš Jakubíček
  • Ilan Kernerman
  • Iztok Kosem
  • Pavel Rychlý
  • Carole Tiberius

If/When any of the Trustees steps down, new members will be appointed by cooptation.

Legal status

The Board of Trustees has founded an endowment fund for the purposes of organization of this prize. The endowment fund is a legal body, a private non-profit organization registered in the Czech Republic, which will be the beneficiary of all sponsorship and donator of the Prize. Contact details of this legal entity are provided below:

Nadační fond Adama Kilgarriffa (Adam Kilgarriff Endowment Fund)
Address: Slovákova 7, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

This society is registered in the Register of Endowment Funds maintained by the Regional Court in Brno, section N, insert 666 under the number 06570496.

Bank account details (euro account):
IBAN: CZ1320100000002401329527
SWIFT/BIC: FIOBCZPPXXX
This is a transparent bank account provided by Fio banka, a.s., anyone may see any transactions on this account online.

The online banking interface only shows transactions in the past 12 months. Older records are available as regular bank statements on the following link:
A temporary account used for founding the endowment fund was held by Komerční banka in the years 2017–2018 with a starting balance of 1,000 CZK (approx. 40 €).