Faculty and Staff

Emel Akçali graduated in International Relations at both the American University (Paris, BA) and at the Université de Galatasaray (Istanbul, MA). She obtained her PhD in Political Geography at the Geography Institute of Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as an honorary research fellow and a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her research interests are the (trans-)formation of national identities in the age of globalisation, Political Islam, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, the development of non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and ethno-territorial conflicts and their resolution.

Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

Andrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and economics, institutional economics and microeconomic theory. His current research focuses on welfare level of the institutional harmonization, vagueness of law, and the relationship between social norms and law. Andrzej received his Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence in 1996. He also holds an M.A. from Central European University (1992). Before coming to CEU, he worked at the University of Liverpool, and in Wroclaw University of Economics.

Agnes Batory holds a PhD from Cambridge University. At CEU’s Department of Public Policy she is the academic coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy, and she is also a research fellow at the Center for Policy Studies. Her research interests include EU policies and politics, regulation of government and corruption control, and party politics and European integration.

Hanoch Ben-Yami's recent work is on logic and language; on questions of space and time, especially in relation to Special Relativity; and on Descartes’ philosophy.

Gábor Betegh is professor at the Philosophy Department of the Central European University. He studied at Eötvös University in Budapest, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge. He works on ancient philosophy, in particular on ancient metaphysics, cosmology and theology.

Dorothee Bohle joined the Political Science Department in 2001, after receiving her PhD from Free University of Berlin. Previously, she was a junior research fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin. She also held visiting positions at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Department of Political Science at Vienna University, the Center for European Studies at Carleton University, and the European University Institute in Florence, where she was a Fernand Braudel fellow. Her research focuses on the political economy of East Central European capitalism. She is the author of Europas Neue Peripherie: Polens Transformation und transnationale Integration (Muenster, Westfaelisches Dampfboot, 2002), and her recent articles are published in Capital and Class, Studies in Comparative International Development, West European Politics, Competition and Change, Journal of Democracy, and European Journal of Sociology. Her book Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, which she co-authored with Bela Greskovits, is forthcoming with Cornell University Press.

András Bozóki’s main fields of research include democratization, political ideas, Central European politics, political and cultural elites, and the role of intellectuals. He has published on post-communist transition, comparative democratization, anarchist ideas and movements, transformation of political elites, the European public sphere, and intellectuals in politics.

András Bozóki is the former Chairman of the Hungarian Political Science Association (2003-5). He was also a member of the executive council of the European Political Science Network (2002-8). Since 2008, he has been member of the executive committee of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA).

His publications include four authored books in Hungarian (one of them co-authored), two in English (co-authored), fourteen edited volumes in Hungarian, and six edited volumes in English (four of them co-edited), and many articles in journals and collective volumes in several languages and countries. His recent works include Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies (co-author), The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy (editor), The Communist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe (co-editor), and the Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe (editor).

Professor Bozóki has taught at universities in the United States (Columbia University, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College), in Britain (Nottingham), Germany (Tübingen), Italy (Bologna University), and in his native Hungary (Eötvös Loránd University). He gave invited lectures at several universities, from Harvard to Hong Kong University, in all continents.

He has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, Germany, at UCLA in Los Angeles, US, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, at the Sussex European Institute in Brighton, UK, and at the Institute for Humane Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

He was a founding editor of the Hungarian Political Science Review (1992-99), the academic journal of the Hungarian Political Science Association. Since 2000, he has been member of the editorial associates of the journal. He serves as member of the editorial associates of the European Political Science, the CEU Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Baltic Worlds, and the Taiwan Journal of Democracy.

In 1989, András Bozóki participated at the roundtable negotiations; in 2003-4, he was advisor to the Prime Minister. In 2005-6, András Bozóki served as Minister of Culture of Hungary.

Alessia Campolmi is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Central European University and a researcher at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). Her research interests are monetary and fiscal policy with particular emphasis on their international aspects and their interactions with labor market frictions. Alessia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2008).

Andrew Cartwright works at the Center for Policy Studies.  His research concentrates on social and economic development in rural areas, especially former socialist ones.  His PhD was on implementing land reform in Romania.  At the DPP, he teaches Rural Development Policy and runs the Policy Labs course.

Aleh Cherp's research interest include energy security and transitions to sustainable energy systems as well as strategic environmental assessment. He is the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission and a Coordinating Lead Analyst (Energy Security) in the Global Energy Assessment.

László CSABA is professor of international political economy at Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of 11 books, editor of 6 volumes, as well as 328 articles and chapters in books published in 22 countries. In 1999-2000 President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. On the editorial board of 9 international and 5 Hungarian academic journals. His recent output includes the books: Crisis in Economics?/2009 and The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe-2d revised edition/2007, both Akadémiai/W.Kluwer, as well as the chapters:’Enlargement of the EU’ in: TURLEY,G.- HARE,P.G.eds: Routledge Handbook on Transition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2012 and ’ Hungary: the Janus-faced success story of transition’ in: FOSU,A.ed: Country Experiences with Economic Success’, Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. For more info cf his personal web: www.csabal.com

Francisca de Haan’s research interests center on modern European women’s and gender history, comparative history of inter/transnational women’s movements, women’s work, and women’s archives. Her book Gender and the Politics of Office Work, the Netherlands 1860-1940 (1998) examined how gender and class interacted in shaping office work and office workers. Her second book, The Rise of Caring Power (co-authored with Annemieke van Drenth), focused on two nineteenth-century religiously-inspired British reformers, Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler, whose work had a huge resonance across Europe. De Haan’s current research focuses on the entangled histories of the three largest international women’s organizations during the Cold War. She has (co-)edited 10 volumes, including the Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe (a Choice Outstanding Academic Title selection); and is founding editor of Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women’s and Gender History. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Feministische Studien, the Journal of Women’s History, and the Women’s History Review. She has received a number of prizes and fellowships, including a Study-Prize of the Praemium Erasmia¬num Foundation for her PhD (1992), and most recently the John E. Sayer Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in NC, USA, endowed by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008-2009). From 2005 to 2010 she served as Vice-President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.

Nenad Dimitrijevic is an associate professor at CEU Political Science Department. He received his BA diploma (1978), MA (1983), and PhD in constitutional law (1986) from University of Novi Sad, School of Law. His research interests include constitutional theory (constitutional design, post-communist constitutionalism, minority rights, constitutional patriotism), and political theory (political legitimacy, transformative justice).

Anil Duman has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include political economy, economic development, welfare state policies, and comparative economic systems. Currently, she has been specializing on labour market institutions, social security regimes, and their interactions.

John S. Earle received his PhD in economics from Stanford University and has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991. He has served as department head (1993-1995), director of the PhD program (2003-2006), and director of the CEU Labor Project (since 1994), an externally funded unit of the university carrying out research on labor economics, firm performance, and industry dynamics. The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects with partners ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Framework Programmes, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region. Professor Earle is also Professor at the School of Public Policy of George Mason University and an affiliated researcher with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. He is President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the largest association of economists world-wide working on issues of institutions, political economy, and international comparisons.

Zsolt Enyedi received four M.A.’s in comparative social sciences, history, sociology and political science (from University of Amsterdam, ELTE University, and Central European University) and a PhD in political science (from Hungarian Academy of Sciences). His research interests focus on party politics, comparative government, church and state relations, and political psychology (especially authoritarianism, prejudices and political tolerance). He published more than fifty articles and book chapters, and (co)authored two and coedited three volumes on these topics.

Thomas Fetzer joined the IRES department in December 2009. He received his Ph D from the Department of History at the European University Institute Florence in October 2005 with a thesis on British and German trade union politics at Ford and General Motors since the late 1960s. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne and taught in several programs of US-based universities in Florence. In 2007 and 2008 Thomas was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, and in 2009 he was Assistant Professor for Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and also Visiting Lecturer at CEU.

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Eva Fodor is a sociologist, an associate professor of Gender Studies at the CEU and the Academic Director of CEU Institute for Advanced Studies. She is also the Academic Advisor of the Roma Access Program. She has a PhD in Sociology and is learning to appreciate the multidisciplinary environment at the Department of Gender Studies. She works in the field of comparative inequalities and social stratification and is interested in how and why gender differences in the labor market and elsewhere are reshaped, renegotiated and reproduced in different societies. Her book, “Working Difference” compares the organizing principles and everyday practices of state socialist and capitalist gender regimes in Hungary and Austria between the late 1940s and 1990s. Her more recent work also explores labor market gender inequalities with special attention to the key institutions which maintain and redesign it: employment and welfare state policies. Her ongoing research project, in collaboration with three partners from the Netherlands, Germany and the US, compares post-communist EU members states and examines the relationship between the gender poverty gap and the ways in which countries integrated into the global capitalist economy. Eva uses a variety of methods for her analysis, including historical archival research, qualitative interviews and high tech quantitative analyses of large datasets.

Attila Folsz received his Ph.D. in International Relations and European Studies from the Budapest University of Economics. Attila Folsz is a political economist, specialized on post-communist transition and the EU, with a special focus on enlargement and monetary unification.

Réka teaches writing in the Departments of Public Policy, International Relations, Philosophy, and Legal Studies. Prior to joining CEU in 2005, she worked at the Applied Linguistics Department at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, teaching academic writing. Réka is currently completing her PhD at Eötvös Loránd University and holds an MA in English and Latin Language and Linguistics. Her research interests include higher education research and writing research, particularly discourse analysis.

Byzantine history, c.600–1500;
Byzantine rhetoric;
Byzantine manuscript studies & Greek palaeography

György Gergely has done his graduate studies in psychology at University College London and Columbia University where he received his PhD in experimental psycholinguistics. He has also earned a second PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the HIETE University, Budapest. His main research interests are: Social and cognitive development and cultural learning in infancy and early childhood, action understanding, theory of mind, and developmental psychopathology. He has published books and papers in three broad areas of research and theory: a) cognitive science, b) cognitive and socio-emotional development, and c) clinical and psychoanalytic developmental theory, and developmental psychopathology.

Andreas Goldthau is Head of the Department of Public Policy. Prior to joining CEU, he worked as a Transatlantic PostDoc Fellow in International Relations and Security with the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), as well as a Research Fellow with the Institute for East European Studies at Freie University of Berlin. He is also a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (Berlin/ Geneva) and and an Adjunct Professor with Johns Hopkins University’s MSc in Energy Policy and Climate.

Béla Greskovits is professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, and Department of Political Science, at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, comparative economic development, social movements, and democratization. His most recent articles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, Labor History, Orbis, West European Politics, Competition and Change, Journal of Democracy, and European Journal of Sociology. Currently he is completing a book manuscript with Dorothee Bohle on capitalist diversity on Europe’s periphery.

Michael Hamilton holds an LL.B. from the University of Kent at Canterbury, an MA in Irish Studies from Queen's University in Belfast, and a PhD from the School of Law at the University of Ulster. His primary research interest is in freedom of assembly and expression during periods of transition.

John joined the Center for Academic Writing as Director in 1998. He currently works mainly with students of Public Policy, International Relations and Economics. He has also been involved as a consultant for writing programs and centers in various countries in the region. His principal research interest is in policy issues related to teaching writing in English or in other languages. Prior to joining CEU he worked in various countries of Central and Eastern, including the Baltic States, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, but also in Germany, China, Finland and Turkey.

Elissa Helms holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests cover the gendering of nationalism, NGO activism and donor aid, gender and ethnic violence, and the social dynamics of gender after significant ruptures such as war or the collapse of state-socialism. She is especially interested in gendered aspects of discursive representation and the opportunities and obstacles this creates for social activism and general understanding of social processes. Regionally, she focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, especially the successor states of socialist Yugoslavia. She has been conducting ethnographic research in the Bosniac (Muslim) dominated areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1997. Her engagement with Bosnia began several years earlier, however, with several years of work with Bosnian refugees in Croatia, the US, and Bosnia itself before she returned to academia.
Elissa teaches a seminar on gender and nationalism from an anthropological perspective as well as qualitative research methods and academic writing. She also serves as the department’s Director of Doctoral Studies. Elissa is active in several international research networks and programs aimed at strengthening higher education, and especially gender studies, in the region. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on women’s activism and issues of representation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Mel Horwitch is Dean and University Professor at Central European University Business School, located in Budapest, Hungary.

Previously, he was Professor of Technology Management, Director of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise, former Chair of the Department of Technology Management, Founding Director of the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, and faculty director of the CleantechExecs Executive Program at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Professor Horwitch is an acknowledged expert on entrepreneurship and innovation management. He has written extensively on technology strategy, particularly with reference to knowledge-intensive sectors (e.g. services, media, information technology, and telecommunications), global innovation, and the role of networks and cross-boundary and multi-sector endeavors in developing technology. Most recently, Professor Horwitch has focused his research on clean tech and sustainability management, global innovation (especially with regard to emerging economies), global entrepreneurship in both stand-alone and corporate venues and the future configuration of modern innovation. He developed new courses at NYU-Poly on clean tech and renewable energy innovation, services innovation, entrepreneurship, business model innovation, global innovation, managing growing enterprises and society-wide technology policy. He also has extensive executive education experience.

Evelyne Hübscher joined the Department of Public Policy of the Central European University in Budapest as an Assistant Professor in 2010. At CEU she teaches seminars in comparative politics, public policy analysis and comparative welfare state research. Before joining CEU, Evelyne Hübscher was a research fellow at the Political Science Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna.

Her research interests are in comparative welfare state research, social policy and labor market reforms, and party politics.

Ph.D. (BME, Budapest), part-time: Soil contamination by industrial chemicals; analysis of pesticide and heavy metal content in water and soil; influence of pesticides on soil bacteria; soil ecosystems; environmental protection, management and policies.

Kristina Irion is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Research Director, Public Policy, at the Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMCS) at Central European University. Her background combines academic, research, and practical experience about the media and communications sector. She is the academic coordinator of the Media, Information and Communications Policy Stream and delivers a range of courses from this field.

History of everyday life in the Middle Ages;
history of visual culture;
gender history

Karoly (Charles Jokay) is a municipal finance and creditworthiness specialist with extensive experience in Central and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia and Romania, and recently (2009), India, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.   Having served for two years as the Municipal Capital Markets Development Advisor to the Ministry of Interior and to the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, he has extensive regional experience in policy reform, municipal finance and budgeting, utility infrastructure, and information marketing and dissemination to municipalities. His firm, IGE Consulting Limited (www.ige.hu), established in 1996, provides municipal finance and development consulting to international donors and to Hungarian municipalities.

Achim Kemmerling is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Public Policy, Central European University Budapest where he teaches courses on methodology, political economy and development. He has published in academic journals of various disciplines (e.g. Public Choice, JEPP, EUP, and JCMS) on issues of tax policy, social and labor market policies, and fiscal federalism. His monograph "Taxing the Working Poor" (Edward Elgar 2009) deals with the political and economic tradeoffs between redistribution and job incentives for poor workers. He has worked as a consultant to the German parliament, the German Society for Technical Cooperation (former GTZ, now GIZ) and the European Investment Bank.

Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007. Her main interests are in comparative politics, especially in the study of political parties and party systems, governance and governability, and comparative regionalism. Youngmi was previously Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been the recipient of several grants, including from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation. Youngmi has taught on East Asian politics, Europe-Asia relations, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Administration, Ethics and Public Policy, and China’s foreign policy. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. Her recent and forthcoming publications include ‘Between Institutions and Culture: The Politics of Coalition and Governability in South Korea’ (Routledge, 2011), Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008), and Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008, co-authored with F. Yap). At CEU Youngmi teaches courses on East Asia in International Relations and Comparative Regionalism in IRES, and Comparative Political Institutions and Global Cities in DPP. Youngmi is the Director of the Global E-School Project on Korean Studies in Eurasia (2012-2017), coordinated by CEU and funded by the Korea Foundation, and Co-Director of the 2012 Summer School on Comparative Regionalisms at CEU (http://www.summer.ceu.hu/comparative-2012).

Co-founder and first chairman of the Alliance of Free Democrats, Hungary’s liberal party. Took an active part in the process of the transition to democracy in 1989/90. Withdrew from politics in 1991. At present, professor of political science and of philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest. In 1983, guest lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). In 1988/89, visiting professor at the New School for Social Research (New York). In the Fall of 1996, 2000, and 2002, visiting global professor at the New York University School of Law.

historical anthropology of medieval and early modern European popular religion (sainthood, miracle beliefs, visions, healing, magic, witchcraft)

Professor at Legal Studies Department, Central European University, since 1992, professor and chair of the Labour and Social Law Department at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law (Budapest) with interruption since 1991 up to date. Taught subjects: labour and social law at ELTE, European labour law, gender and law, equal opportunity law as well as comparative social protection at CEU.

Born and educated in Budapest, Hungary, I also spent a fair amount of time for study, teaching or research in England, Scotland, North America, Germany and Italy. I have been a member of CEU's History Department since its first MA program in 1992 (and was its head from 1999-2005 and 2006-2008). My acedemic interests focus on intellectual history, especially political and historical thought, inter-cultural communication and reception, and more recently the history of scientific knowledge production, in the early-modern period and the Enlightenment.

Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University, Hungary, and since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Psychology at the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Romania in 2000, followed by an MA degree from the same university in 2002. In 2008 May i have received a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, from SISSA, Trieste, Italy (Advisor Prof. Jacques Mehler). From 2007 till 2010 I was a Marie Curie research fellow in the DISCOS project at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and a research fellow at the CEU Cognitive Development Centre. Currently I am a research fellow at the CEU Cognitive Development Centre.

Andrea Krizsan is Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies since 2001. Her main research interests include equality policy, the politics of violence against women, policy change in Central and Eastern Europe and the role of non-conventional policy actors. She teaches Politics of Gender based Violence and Comparative Equality Policy. Andrea has a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University.

Sanjay Kumar teaches Academic Writing in the Departments of Gender Studies, Public Policy, Environmental Science and Policy and Legal Studies. He joined the Centre for Academic Writing in August, 2010. He was awarded PhD in English Language and Literature from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2010. He has more than ten years of teaching experience in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in technical universities and Business schools in India like the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). Prior to joining CEU, he taught in Selye Janos University, Slovakia and International Business School(IBS)), Budapest.

Paul Lacourbe is an associate professor of operations management. His research interests involve management of product innovation and product positioning, with a particular focus on the psychological aspects of sustainability in product design. His work has appeared in Production and Operations Management, Current Issues of Business and Law, Revue Française de Gestion. Lacourbe holds a PhD from INSEAD and has taught at ESSEC in Paris.

Archaeology of the Middle Ages;
medieval monastic culture

Robert Lieli is an assistant professor at the Economics Department at Central European University and a researcher at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). His research is in forecasting and econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (2004) and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin before joining CEU.

Assistant Professor Anna Loutfi received her PhD from the Department of History at CEU and her doctoral research focused on the intersections of gender politics, law, and nation building in late nineteenth-century Hungary. More recently, she has moved into the field of History of Science and her most recent research examines forms of interplay between late nineteenth-century social, political, and cultural reform movements and dominant scientific ideas. She is particularly interested in the historical emergence of the figure of the scientist and the production of scientific subjectivity. Her areas of interest/specialization are:

• biopolitics (in particular the biopolitical theories of Foucault and Agamben)
• Enlightenment epistemology
• Translations between science and culture, religion and science, science and social movements
• The historical construction of masculinity (especially in relation to scientific knowledge production)

Sergey Lychagin is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, industrial organization and international trade. His current work concentrates on the effects of competition and knowledge flows on the firm-level productivity dynamics. Sergey received his PhD in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2011.

Liviu Matei is CEU's Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and a professor in the Department of Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bucharest. His professional career includes work as a consultant for UNESO, the Council of Europe, EU Commission, OSCE, European University Association, on issues concerning higher education and civil society; Co-chair of the Working Group on Higher Education of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe; Director General for International Relations, Romanian Ministry of Education; Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University; Program Director, Médecins Sans Frontières, Program of Assistance to Underprivileged Roma Communities in Transylvania. Liviu Matei is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Higher Education Area, member of the Board of the International Higher Education Suport Program, and member of the GRE European Advisory Council.

Charles S. Mayer has been a Professor of International Marketing at the CEU for the past 10 years. He is also Professor Emeritus of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business, in Toronto Canada. He joined Schulich in 1969, where he established the International MBA program, and many exchange programs.
He has had broad international experience, having held major teaching posts in Germany, Ireland, Israel, Hungary, China, Japan, New Zealand, U.K. and U.S.A.

He holds a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Michigan, and M.B.A. and B.A.Sc. degrees fom the University of Toronto.

He is a past Vice President of the American Marketing Association, and of the Professional Marketing Research Society - the later electing him as a Fellow.

Mayer has consulted for major international companies such as Coca Cola, Unilever, P & G, and B.A.S.F.

Michael Merlingen is an Associate Professor. His current research interests lie in EU foreign and security policy, and heterodox IR theory, notably the intersections of poststructuralist and marxist theories. His current teaching portfolio includes courses on IR theory (introductory and advanced), foreign policy analysis, and EU foreign and security policy. Michael has published two books on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP): European Union Peacebuilding and Policing: Governance and the European Security and Defence Policy, (London: Routledge, 2006; paperback edition in 2008; with the help of R. Ostrauskaitė); and the edited volume European Security and Defence Policy: An Implementation Perspective, (London: Routledge, 2008; paperback edition in 2010; co-editor Ostrauskaitė). His third book – European Security and Defense Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters – is published by Lynne Rienner in October 2011. Michael’s papers on and contributions to EU studies, including the CSDP, and IR theory have appeared in journals such as Millennium; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Journal of Common Market Studies; International Political Sociology; Security Dialogue; Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen; and European Foreign Affairs Review. He is currently in charge of CEU’s contribution to a big FP-7 project, running from 2011-2013, that examines cultures of governance and conflict resolution in Europe and India. Also, Michael has just embarked on a new long-term research project to explore ways to combine Marxists and Foucauldian insights, notably with respect to theorisations of world order and imperialism. He welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to work on issues having to do with his research interests.

Tamas Meszerics received his B.A., Dr. Univ. and Ph.D. in modern international history from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. His major research interests include foreign policy analysis, the applications and limitations of rational choice models in political science, 20th century international history. He was visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies, University of Leeds. He has been working at the department since its foundation.

Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.

Peter Molnar is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University, from 1990 to 1998 a member of the Hungarian Parliament, one of the drafters of the 1996 Hungarian media law, legislative advisor since 2002, has taught and lectured at numerous universities around the world since 1994. In 2007, the staged version of his novel, Searchers, won awards for best alternative play and best independent play in Hungary.
 

PhD from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania

Research Interests: Differential and Difference Equations, Calculus of Variations, Evolution Equations in Banach Spaces, Fluid Mechanics, Singular Perturbation Theory, Various Topics in Applied Mathematics  

Boldizsár Nagy read law and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European University (since 1992) he has been engaged both in governmental and non-governmental actions. He acted several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Europe and UNHCR. He is a co-founder and board member of the European Society of International Law and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and of the European Journal of Migration and Law.

Irina Papkova completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University in 2006. Prior to coming to CEU, she taught at Georgetown, George Washington University, and the Russian State Pedagogical University of A. I. Gerzen. Her research and teaching interests include religion and politics (particularly the intersection of international relations and religion); nationalism and empires; Russian politics; humanitarian intervention; and the political implications of historical memory. She has been the recipient of several research fellowships, among them the Title VIII-Supported Research Scholarship at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Junior Robert Bosch Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. She has written extensively on the relationship between church and state in the Russian Federation; her monograph on the subject, "The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics," was published in April 2011.

Anton Pelinka has taught as full professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, from 1975 to 2006. He was visiting professor at different universities - University of New Orleans, Harvard University (Schumpeter Fellow), Stanford University (Austrian Chair), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Institute for European Studies). His main research interest is on Comparative Politics and Democratic Theory.

My research interests include sustainable development strategies, measuring genuine progress, integrated assessment, and the construction and analysis of future scenarios and transition pathways. Prior to joining CEU in 2010 I worked for 16 years at the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Canada. Currently I serve as Coordinating Lead Author of the Scenarios and Transformative Change chapter of the 5th Global Environment Outlook.

Uwe Puetter is Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Director of the Center for European Union Research (CEUR). He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy and Governance. Uwe Puetter is also Academic Director for Public Policy. His research interests are in the field of European Union policy-making. Here he focuses on intergovernmental decision-making in the Council and the European Council as well as the fields of economic, social and foreign policy. Uwe Puetter is teaching courses on European integration, comparative politics and socio-economic policy.

Katrin Rabitsch is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Central European University and a researcher at Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). Her research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. Her current work focuses on countries' external adjustment, the international transmission mechanism and monetary policy in an open economy.

Katrin received her Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 2008. She also holds an M.A. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2003) and an undergraduate degree (2002) from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Attila Rátfai is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Central European University. His research interests are in various areas of macroeconomics. His current research focuses on the aggregate implications of heterogeneity and inaction in store-level pricing behavior and on the nature of international business cycle fluctuations.Attila received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds a University Diploma from the Budapest (former Karl Marx) University of Economics. Prior to joining to CEU, he worked at the University of Southampton.

Hadley Z. Renkin received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and an MA in Gender Studies from CEU. His work centers on postsocialist East European sexual politics and sexuality’s implications for changing conceptions of citizenship. He is particularly interested in the regional rise of public homophobia, and its role in reemerging European neoOrientalist moral geographies. His new research focuses on how the relationships between early ethnography, evolutionary theory, and sexology have shaped modern categories of identity and citizenship. He has published on postsocialist homophobia and Hungarian LGBT history-making, and is revising the manuscript for a book, ‘Gay, Hungarian, Human’: Space, Time, and Sexual Citizenship in Postsocialist Hungary, an ethnographic study of the emergence of Hungary’s LGBT movement, how it has used national and transnational temporalities and geographies to assert multiple forms of belonging, and the resistance its claims have faced.

Howard Robinson is University Professor in Philosophy. Between 2007 and 2010 he was Provost and Academic Pro-Rector of the University. He mainly specializes in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, including the philosophy of religion: he also has an interest in the history of philosophy.

Thomas has been teaching academic writing at CEU since 1996. In that time he has taught and consulted with students from most departments, including Economics, History, International Relations and European Studies, Legal Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology & Social Anthropology. Before coming to CEU he taught English as a Second and Foreign Language in San Francisco and with the Peace Corps in Hungary. He has a B.A. from Villanova University, an M.A. from Arizona State University, and is currently completing work on a PhD in English Renaissance Literature at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespearean International Yearbook, and Notes & Queries.

Tamas Rudas is Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University; Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He completed his Habilitation (sociology), Eötvös Loránd University and holds a Széchenyi Professorship. He is also a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (sociology). Tamas Rudas had visiting positions at Pennsylvania State University; University of Toledo; Educational Testing Service, Princeton; Center for Surveys, Methodology and Analysis, Mannheim; Fields Institute, Toronto; University of Graz, Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, Koeln; University of Erfurt; University of Ljubljana; University of Washington. His research interests are in multivariate statistics, analysis of categorical data, survey methodology, and applied statistics.

András Sajó is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He took his position on February 1, 2008. He is a University Professor at CEU and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Professor Sajó was the founding dean of Legal Studies at CEU. In addition to his stature as a prominent constitutionalist, he is also a distinguished scholar in the human rights field, including media regulation.

Natalie studied psychology and psycholinguistics in Innsbruck, Austria, and then joined the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich in 2001. Having received her PhD from LMU Munich in 2004 she spent the following years working as a post-doc and later as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, NJ, and as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. In 2008, Natalie was appointed as an Associate Professor at the Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, and started a five year project on the "Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Joint Action" (funded by a EURYI grant from the European Science Foundation). She is interested in how perception, action, and cognition contribute to social interaction in humans and other animals. For more information on my research go to http://somby.hu

Lea Sgier is assistant professor of political science at CEU, and lecturer at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection of the University of Essex (UK). Previously she was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Geneva and at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Geneva. Her research areas are interpretive methodologies, gender and politics, political representation and citizenship, nationalism and the nation-state.

Marsha Siefert began teaching courses in international communication and oral history at CEU in 1996. Her research focuses on cultural and communications history, with current projects on nineteenth-century imperial telecommunications networks and film cultures in the Cold War.

My research interest includes ancient, late antique and medieval science and philosophy, medieval manuscript studies and cognitive science. My current research project explores visual thinking and diagrammatic reasoning. After having received my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1998, I have held research positions for eight years at the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute (University of London), and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and most recently for a year at the Collegium Budapest. I have taught courses in medieval science, philosophy, intellectual history, manuscript studies, palaeography and cognitive science in Cambridge, London, and Budapest. My current courses at CEU include medieval science and codicology.

My research and teaching are geared toward exploring civic movements and discourses related to social inequality and environmental degradation.

Adam Szeidl is an applied micro theorist who has done research on the economics of social networks, the economics of consumption, and international trade. Prior to joining CEU Adam was associate professor of economics at UC-Berkeley. Adam got his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2004, and his MA in economics from Central European University in 2000.

GY. E. SZÖNYI is professor of English (Szeged) and intellectual history (CEU, Budapest). His interests include the Renaissance, the Western Esoteric traditions, and cultural theory and symbolization. – Recent monographs: Pictura & Scriptura. 20th-Century Theories of Cultural Representations (in Hungarian, Szeged, 2004); John Dee's Occultism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004). – He has edited among others: European Iconography East & West (Leiden, 1996); The Iconography of Power (with Rowland Wymer, Szeged, 2000); "The Voices of the English Renaissance," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 11.1 (2005); The Iconology of Gender (with Attila Kiss, Szeged, 2008).

I am a linguist. My research interests are theories of language and linguistic diversity. I obtained my PhD in Linguistics (Theoretical Linguistics Program, Eötvös Loránd University) in Budapest in 2005, and my current long-term cooperation projects run in Italy and the Netherlands in Finno-Ugric languages and lexicography. I have published articles on case, aspect, evidentiality, and verb classes. My recent research focuses on negation and (non)-finiteness. My best language is Estonian, and I think that there is much to discover about the spoken and Sign Languages of this region.

Prof. Timár’s research interests include literature and queer theory, sexuality, literary theory, deconstruction, performativity, embodiment and political philosophy, discourses of friendship and fraternity. She teaches courses on queer theory, performativity, and prostitution. Her current work primarily focuses on the multifaceted links between the figure of the post-Revolutionary citizen and the modern figure of the (male) homosexual; related projects focus on the role of 19th century nationalism in the development of discourses of homosexuality and current Hungarian homophobia, other projects focus on deconstructive approaches to questions of embodiment,

Davide Torsello was trained in socio-cultural anthropology at academic institutions of different countries (Italy, Japan, UK, Germany, Hungary), and the variety of their theoretical and methodological perspectives exerted an everlasting influence on his scientific profile. Through over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork research experience mostly in Central Eastern Europe, in Italy and Japan, he developed sensitivity for investigating trust, corruption, informal economy, interpersonal and power relations, performance of government institutions and organizations and has been able to construct case studies based on the use of different research methodologies. He has extensive teaching experience at BA, MA, and PhD level.
Professor at the University of Bergamo, he taught also at: University of Milan Bicocca, University of Roma Tre, Charles University in Prague, Comenius University Bratislava, American University of Richmond, UK and at University of Hirosaki, Japan.

Balázs Trencsényi has been teaching at CEU since 2004. He also serves as Co-Director of Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies. He is Associate Editor of East Central Europe, published by Brill. His main fields of interest are: history of political thought in Central and Southeastern Europe, history of historiography and nationalism studies. Currently he is Principal Investigator of the international research project, "Negotiating Modernity. History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe," supported by the European Research Council.

Renáta Uitz is chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law program. Her teaching covers subjects in comparative constitutional law in Europe and North America, transitional justice and human rights protection with special emphasis on the enforcement of constitutional rights and on issues of bodily privacy and sexuality.

Tibor Várady is an internationally-recognized scholar and expert on international commercial arbitration, private international law, and international business transactions. He was on the faculty of the Novi Sad Law School in the former Yugoslavia and served as director of its Center for International Studies for many years. Since 1993 he is a professor at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest, and Chairman of the International Business Law Program.

Vedres' research furthers the agenda of understanding historical dynamics in network systems, combining insights from historical sociology, social network analysis, and studies of complex systems in physics and biology. His contribution is to combine historical sensitivities to patterns of processes in time with a network analytic sensitivity to patterns of connectedness cross-sectionally. Over the last decade Balazs Vedres developed data collection and analysis techniques to handle large historical datasets. His research results were published in the top journals of sociology, his most recent publication in the American Journal of Sociology analyzes generative tensions in the historical evolution of business groups.

Ph.D. (Warwick University): Head of Department; environmental philosophy and political theory; academic writing for environmental sciences and policy. I have research interests in the areas of environmental ethics/values and sustainable lifestyles and would be interested in accepting new doctoral students (for 2012-15 intake) with projects in these fields.

Political, institutional and legal history of the Middle Ages, with a focus on Germany, Central, and South-Eastern Europe

Research Interest
Contemporary history, historical anthropology, historiography

She obtained her Ph.D. at the Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies in 2004.
Since 2003 she has been research fellow at the University of Padova. Here she worked upon three main research topics: 1) The study of cemeteries from a gender perspective deals with problems as social construction, examining with particular attention its relation to both ethnicity and migration in late antiquity and Early Middle Ages. 2) Demography, mortality and life styles of the Early Middle Ages. 3) History of barbarian archaeology, with particular attention to the 19th and 20th centuries.
Between 2003 and 2006 she regularly taught at the school of archaeology of the University of Padova.
In 2008 she was research fellow at the Academy of Sciences of Vienna, in the frame of the Wittgenstein project, coordinated by W. Pohl.
Since 1990, she worked on different archaeological excavations in Italy and abroad.

Dr Daniel Bochsler joined DISC in Fall 2009 after defending his PhD at the University of Geneva (2008), specializing in the effects of electoral systems on party systems in post-communist democracies, mediated by party nationalisation. His research centres on political parties, elections and direct democracy, focusing on young democracies and on Switzerland. His publications include articles in Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, the European Yearbook for Minority Issues, Public Choice, Regional & Federal Studies, and the Swiss Political Science Review. His new monograph (Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies) is forthcoming with Palgrave.
Check Daniels webpage on www.bochsler.eu

I work on ancient philosophy, especially metaphysics and ethics, the Hellenistic schools, Plato and later Platonism. My PhD thesis (defended in January 2011) explores Cicero's presentation of Stoic ethics in his "On ends" and its possible effects on our understanding of early Stoic theory.

After receiving my B.A. in Cognitive Science and Language Studies from Wellesley College in 1999, I completed my Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Rutgers University in 2007 (advised by Dr. Alan Leslie). From 2007-2009, I was a post-doctoral research associate at Northwestern University in the lab of Dr. Sandra Waxman. I joined the CDC as a post-doctoral fellow in November 2009.

Lina Dencik is a research fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Political Science Department at CEU. She came to the CEU in May 2011 for a six-month stay. Her research focuses on news spaces and politics of the ‘global’. Lina's book Media and Global Civil Society is forthcoming in 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for Media, Arts & Performance at Bedfordshire University, an Associate Lecturer at the Department for Communication, Media & Culture at Oxford Brookes University, and a Visiting Tutor at the Department for Media & Communications of Goldsmiths College, University of London. At Goldsmiths College, she completed her PhD last year with a thesis on news practices and theories of global civil society.

Francesca Giardini joined CEU as a Post Doc in September 2010. She is working with Christophe Heintz on the cognitive mechanisms behind cooperative choices, with a special focus on reputation and gossip. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Siena (supervisor: Cristiano Castelfranchi) and worked as a Post Doc in the Laboratory of Agent-based Social Simulation (LABSS) at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR) in Rome. She has been involved in national and international research projects on reputation and prosocial behaviors in which she used both laboratory experiments and computational simulations.

Ellen Hume is the Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at CMCS. Appointed in 2009 by Michael Delli Carpini, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Ellen participates in research projects and workshops. She taught “News Media and Political Power: Global Lessons from the American Experience” for the CEU Political Science Department in 2010. Before coming to CEU, Ellen was the Research Director at the Center for Future Civic Media in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, she founded the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the New England Ethnic Newswire. She also served as executive director and senior fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and as executive director of PBS's Democracy Project, where she developed special news programs that encouraged citizen involvement in public affairs. Ellen was a White House and political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, national reporter for the Los Angeles Times and regular commentator on PBS's Washington Week in Review and CNN's Reliable Sources programs.

Stanislava Kuzmová graduated from History and English language and literature at Comenius University in Bratislava before studying at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (MA, PhD). She defended her PhD dissertation in 2010 and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher on the project "Communicating Sainthood" (OTKA at CEU) associated to the ESF project "Symbols that Bind and Break Communities."

Tom is a Canadian medical sociologist with an interest and expertise in public health delivery and policy issues. Most of his career was spent working in the Canadian public policy environment. Tom's principal interests in sociology are the sociology of academic medicine, theory, health inequality and the determinants of health, and the "greening" of medicine in response to changes wrought by societal responses to climate change. Currently, he is at CEU in the Center for Policy Studies working as a post-doctoral research fellow.

Roderick joined CPS in January 2010 after four years as Professor of Management at CEU Business School. This followed an extensive career in the UK, where his career highlights included: Official Fellow in Politics and Sociology at Trinity College, Oxford (1969-84); Professor of Industrial Sociology, Imperial College, University of London (1984-88); Fellow in Information Management at Templeton College, University of Oxford (1988-91); Professor and Director of University of Glasgow Business School, (1992-99); Professor and Director at School of Management, University of Southampton (1999-2005), as well as visiting posts at Cornell University (USA), Griffith University, University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney (Australia). Roderick is an industrial sociologist, currently writing a book on business systems in Central and Eastern Europe.

Vera Messing is a research fellow at the Center for Policy Studies since 2008 as well as a research associate of the Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2004. She earned her PhD studies in Budapest, Corvinus University in 2000. She has over 15 years’ of experience in empirical research on ethnicity, minorities, social exclusion, media representation of vulnerable groups and ethnic conflicts. Her work focuses on comparative understanding of different forms and intersections of social inequalities and ethnicity and their consequences. She is specifically interested in policy and civil responses to ethnic diversity in the field of education and labour market. The main focus of her most recent research has been employment and education of ‘visible’ minorities in Europe, and Roma of Central Europe in particular. At CPS, she has been involved in the coordination of the FP7 research project EDUMIGROM. She has contributed to the design, the organization of the nine country comparative research, as well as to the contributed to the drafting of comparative reports. She has been a member of the network of excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare), and contributed to various other comparative research project across Europe. She recurrently consults domestic civil and governmental institutions on issues of employment and education of vulnerable groups.

Olivier Morin is the postdoc with Dan Sperber from November, 2011 until November, 2013.

Carl Nordlund is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a joint position at the Center for Network Science, and the Department of Political Science. He received his PhD in human ecology from the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund university, in september 2010, with undergraduate studies in human ecology, economic history, development studies, economics, political ecology, environmental justice, programming, mathematics, physics, and indonesian. In his thesis monograph, network-analytical methods were applied to international trade flows of agricultural and fuel commodities, examining would-be relations between structural positionality in trade networks and occurrences of ecological unequal exchange. Outside academia, he has worked for the Swedish EPA, WWF Sweden, TV4, KTH, Swedish Space Corporation etc. His research interest is in social network analysis - methods, applications and research design – focusing on political networks and international relations.

CEU 20th Anniversary Postdoctoral Fellow
Political Economy Research Group

Aaron Pitluck is a research fellow specializing in global finance at the Political Economy Research Group for 2011-2013. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology, currently on leave from Illinois State University (USA). Previous to that appointment, he worked at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in Prof. Karin Knorr Cetina’s Research Unit on Knowledge, Finance and Society. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His most recent publication is “Distributed Execution in Illiquid Times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets,” Economy and Society 40(1), 26-55. He has chapters forthcoming in the Handbook of the Sociology of Finance and the International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis.

Roxana Radu is currently a Research Fellow at the CMCS and a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva. She holds a masters’ degree in Political Science from CEU (Budapest), where she received the Best Thesis Award in 2010. Prior to starting her Phd, Roxana worked at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University (CEU) as program coordinator and researcher. Her expertise includes citizen empowerment, democratic (e)participation, and social uses of new technologies. From March to October 2011, she took part in the Next Generation Leaders program of the Internet Society and collaborated extensively with the Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations.

Robert joined the Department of Political Science in 2006 as PhD Coordinator and since 2007 he works as the Academic Coordinator. Before joining the Department of Political Science, Robert was a Student Records Coordinator and a Career Services Coordinator at the Central European University.
Robert holds a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the American University in Bulgaria. Robert earned his MA in Political Science at CEU in 1999 and received another MA in International Relations from the International University in Japan in 2002. Robert completed his doctoral degree in Political Science at CEU in 2006 and since then he also works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the EUROSPHERE Project.
At CEU, Robert has been the staff representative in the CEU Senate since 2006, and he has been re-elected for another three years in 2010. Robert currently chairs the University Disciplinary Committee and acts as Change Manager in the CEU SAP Project.

Elena B. Stavrevska is a PhD Candidate at the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies, where she also obtained her M.A. degree with a final thesis entitled "EU Intelligence-Sharing: The British Quid Pro Quo?". Her current research focuses on critical local agency and its interaction with the liberal peace idea in post-conflict societies, analyzing the cases of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. The project is supervised by Professor Michael Merlingen and Professor John Shattuck.

Anna Szász, sociologist, did a Master in ’Nationalism Studies’ at Central European University and a year later graduated from University College London with an MA in ’Culture, Identity and Power’. Currently she has been a Doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Program, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, as well as a junior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research involves Roma contemporary visual art; ethical, pedagogical, political implication of various practices of ethnicity, historical remembrance; dynamics between domination and resistance; and the ethnic dimension in structural formations.

Postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Development Center

Joost van Beek has been a research fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at CEU since September 2009. Prevously, he worked at the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP) of the Open Society Institute, and Mira Media, a Dutch NGO that promotes the representation of minorities in the media.

Rian Wanstreet began work as a Research Fellow and a Coordinator at the CMCS in September 2011. Her research focuses on Internet governance and regulation, Open Internet initiatives, spectrum regulation and the evolving role of the Public Interest concept in policy-making and regulation. She was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar from 2009 to 2011, has an M.A. in Public Policy from CEU, and an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of York, UK. Rian comes to CEU with ten years of experience working in Chicago with nonprofit and political organizations in media relations, policy development, legislative lobbying, program management, volunteer coordination, and donor relations. She also served in the Peace Corps.

Melinda received a BA in Hungarian Grammar, Literature and History from ELTE Teachers Training College, in 1998.

She joined the Department of Mathematics and its Applications in 2011. Melinda is responsible for courses, timetables, grades, exams, course evaluations, thesis issues, PhD defenses, room requests, organizing public events, allocating accommodation for visiting faculty and solving students'/teachers' problems, etc.
You can contact her at: balazsm@ceu.hu
Phone number: 36-1-327-3000/2158

As the Department Coordinator, she is responsible for the smooth operation of the Department's administration.
This includes, in particular:
- Coordination of the financial issues of the Legal Studies Department, starting from budget planning and reporting, through payments and reimbursements, stipends, cash advances, grant letters, donations, as well as the administration of financial services for various other specific programs of the Department (e.g., OSJI, Summer School, the Doctoral Program and Moot Courts).

- Organization of the stay and handling of the documents related to the visit of visiting professors; in particular preparing invitation letters, contracts and other documents.

- Administration of various records related to the Doctoral Program, like exams, doctoral defenses, disbursement of stipends and regulation of students' status; and

- Assistance and handling the students' problems and complaints.

The Director of IT is the head of the IT group and reports to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). He is responsible for the smooth operation of all hardware and software systems, supervision of the IT Helpdesk and support for overall user satisfaction concerning IT services.

Thorsten Benner is co-founder and associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. As part of the project “Public Policy Schools in the 21st Century: A Global Approach” he works with the SPPIA team at CEU as well as OSF and also leads the concept development for the SPPIA conference series. His areas of expertise include international organizations (focusing on the UN), global security governance, global energy and the public-private interface in global governance as well as Europe's global role & relations with the US and rising powers. Prior to co-founding GPPi in 2003, he worked with the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, the UN Development Program (UNDP) in New York and the Global Public Policy Project in Washington, DC. He teaches in the EMPM program at the Hertie School of Governance. His publications include “The New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace?” (Oxford University Press 2011). His commentary has appeared in DIE ZEIT, the International Herald Tribune, the L.A. Times, Handelsblatt, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Financial Times Deutschland and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others.

He studied political science, history and sociology at the University of Siegen (Germany), the University of York (UK) and the University of California at Berkeley. From 2001-2003 he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he received a Master in Public Administration (MPA).

Previous employment at CEU Press, Ludwig Museum Budapest and the Hungarian Federation of Free Radios. Completed studies in the US (Oberlin Conservatory) and England, and grew up in Delhi, India.

Deniz Bingol McDonald after receiving her Master’s degree from Warwick University, UK, has been writing her PhD dissertation on EU conditionality and restructural reforms in Slovakia, Romania and Turkey, in Central European University- Budapest. She published in Millennium and European Journal of Public Policy on civil society-state relations and financial sector reforms in EU candidate countries. Her other research interest include political economy of property rights reform,Turkish foreign policy, regulatory politics in EU states and public opinion in EU accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Éva Bognár is Coordinator and Researcher at the CMCS. As Project research officer of the three-year European collaborative research project "Civicweb - Young people, the Internet and Civic Participation", funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, Éva ran the project with research assistant Judit Szakács for the CMCS between 2006 and 2009. Éva conducts the Hungarian research for the project BROAD (Broadening the Awareness in Data Protection), a collaboration between Hungarian and Dutch not-for-profit organizations. Her background is in sociology.

Eszter joined ACRO in January 2012 as a Research Grants Coordinator. She is responsible for grants offered by national funding agencies. She manages applications for IVF (International Visegrad Fund), OSI (Open Society Institute) and private foundations.

Edward Branagan is Project Director for the Office of the Dean in the School of Public Policy and International Affairs (SPPIA). Prior to coming to SPPIA, he co-founded Global Playground, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote educational opportunities in developing countries. He was previously an Associate Project Manager and an Internal Consulting Analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in New York City.

He holds a Masters degree in International Relations, with a concentration in Conflict Management, from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance, from the College of William & Mary. Branagan has studied at the Forester Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica, taught English to students in Zenica, Bosnia, studied at Johns Hopkins University's Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy, and completed a one-year Boren Fellowship in Russia.

Nino Chelidze, born in Tbilisi, Georgia – Holds MA Degrees in Linguistics and Education Management.
Worked for the Ministry of Education of Georgia for the Department of Foreign Affairs, monitored Minority
and IDP Programs for the Ministry of Education, served as liaison for International and State education
offices. Later represented ACTR/ACCELS in Georgia and managed Scholarship Programs such as: Edmund E. Muskie Scholarship Program, Fulbright Scholar Program, etc. As a Manager of IREX oversaw RSEP/CI (Regional Scholar Exchange Program and Contemporary Issues Program), helped develop Muskie Scholarship Alumni Association for Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia in 1997). In 2000 joined US Peace Corps as an Education Project Manager
and supervised Secondary School and University Teaching Programs. As of 2004 joined Roma Memorial
University Scholarship Program in OSI Budapest and later managed REF Academic Scholarship
Programs. (RMUSP, LHP, RHSP, Interregional – and International Scholarship Programs).
Currently, in the capacity of Placement Officer with the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and Center for Policy Studies oversees the Intersnhip program schemes and Visiting Practitioners Programs.

Dora Foldes joined CEU in 2008 as part-time MA coordinator at Nationalism Studies Program. She deals with schedules, grades, thesis issues, admission, course registration, cross-listing, public events, reimbursements, general advice, website maintenance, departmental publications.

Dora is a current MA student at the Department of Public Policy.

Lyubov has worked with the CEU web team since spring of 2009. Lyubov assists CEU units in developing their websites, provides technical support to the CEU community, and configures the website's structure and functions.

Zsuzsa Gábor has been with the CEU since 1997. She has been the director of ACRO since it was set up in May 2006. In 2000-2006, as founding member of Center for Policy Studies (CPS), she worked as its program manager and later senior program manager.

Executive Director of the CEU Summer University program since 1997. Previously she taught English as a foreign language and language teaching methodology at the English Department of ELTE, and Hungarian language and culture to American students studying in Budapest. She was a visiting lecturer in Hungarian language at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington for three years. Her publications include two practical language teaching resource books in Hungarian.

Henriett Griecs joined CEU in 1999 and has been working for the Masters Program in Public Policy since its foundation in 2004. She is head of the Department of Public Policy's administrative team, and she is also the Administrative Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy, Mundus MAPP.

Responsible for admissions, course registrations, cross-listing, exchange and visiting programs, Justice Initiative fellows’ assistance, short term research grants, website maintenance, departmental publications.

Márta is in charge of readers and required readings, conferences, office management and some budget issues.

Noemi joined CEU in 2005 and since 2009, she is the Executive Assistant to the President and Rector.

Szilvia currently serves as Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Student Services. Shortly after her completion of studies at CEU in June 1999 Szilvia joined the Office of the Executive Vice President and in 2000 she moved on to the Rectorate. Between 2005 and 2009 she served as Executive Assistant to the President and Rector. Szilvia holds an MA in Human Rights from the CEU Legal Studies Department and an MA in English from the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia.

Brandon has managed the CEU Web Unit since its inception in January 2010. He is responsible for technical management of the institutional website, together with its 100-plus affiliated minisites. Brandon also plays a central role in administering other online CEU endeavors such as the university's photo repository and social media presences. He is a CEU graduate (IRES, 2000).

Dr. Michael LaBelle is the program developer in innovation and sustainability at the Central European University Business School. He conducts research on how institutions and organizations foster change to contribute to a low carbon future. Currently his research concentrates on how formal and informal knowledge of energy regulation is diffused through an organization to national regulatory institutions in Eastern Europe. Previous work assessed the efforts of institutions in the European Union to encourage the use of new low or zero carbon technologies in the energy sector, including energy efficiency measures. Much of his research involves issues of risk governance, with special attention paid to the sunk cost of energy investments. In addition, he has written peer reviewed articles and consulting publications on the strategic movement of energy firms and the regulatory environment in the Central Eastern European region.

Dr. LaBelle is a member of the Atlantic Council’s Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network. Previously, he worked in the CEU Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) and at the Regional Center for Energy Policy Research (REKK) at Corvinus University. He has worked on projects for the European Commission, United States Agency for International Development, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Energy Regulators Regional Association and with energy consulting companies and European universities. He holds an MSc and PhD in Geographical Sciences from the University of Bristol.

Viktoria is responsible for dealing with several student-related matters with the Hungarian authorities such as acquiring tax numbers, arranging health insurance, etc.
Viktoria has been at Central European University since 1998 starting her career at the External Relations Office before promoting to the position of Marketing Coordinator for two years in the CEU Business School. She earned her economic diploma in 1998 in the College of Commerce and Economics, Szolnok.

Csaba is responsible for general configuration and performance fine-tuning of the server hosting the CEU Drupal-based website and its minisites. His tasks include the continuous monitoring of server health, resource usage, and performance; adapting the server environment to arising needs; creating emergency action plans; and ensuring maximum stability and availability of our website system.

Maret started to work for the Center for Policy Studies in November 2010 as a part time program assistant. She was organizing the CEU hosted 2nd European Conference on Politics and Gender that brought more than 300 scholars from all over the world to CEU. From March 2011 she became a full time program coordinator.

Maret was also dealing with financial and administrative issues connected to the European project EDUMIGROM (a consortium of 10 European organizations) and she is the main point of contact for another European project ACCEPT PLURALISM. Aside from this Maret contributes to the everyday operation of the Center, helps to organize various public events and maintain several of the CPS online platforms.

Before joining the CPS Maret lived in Estonia and worked for the Ministry of Justice as an adviser of drug prevention in prisons for more than 2 years. In addition to valuable experience gained in the public sector, she has been working for various non-profit organizations as a manager of different youth work and drug prevention related projects. For a year she was doing the European Volunteer Service in Romania and working with children from vulnerable groups. Maret has defended a master’s degree in social work and social policy at Tartu University.

I joined the ARCS team in March 2009 after spending 2 years at the Marketing Department of Business School and I consider myself very fortunate to be part of such a supportive and collaborative team. I am the person behind the messages sent to you, and the person who is open to help you with lots of meaningful services, information, or just with a smile.
I enjoy the challenging opportunity to contribute to the strengthening of the CEU community by engaging alumni in a lifelong relationship with the university. Having this position, being part of this exceptional international network enriched my life very much because I have always loved to assist people, and feel grateful for the opportunity to get to know you personally. So, don't hesitate to drop by our office any time you are in Budapest!
You may contact me with questions related to alumni services and benefits on molnarsz@ceu.hu, tel: 327-3000 ext. 2332

Majored in English Language and Information Techology at the University of Debrecen. Currently working as a Coordinator for the Center for Integrity in Business and Government in CEU Business School.

The Student Records Coordinator provides assistance in using the information resources effectively. The coordinator helps students to use the Infosys and assists other registration related inquiries.

Veronika is responsible for recruitment, conferences and publications, exam coordination, grades and student progress.