Profiles of CEU Researchers

Yusef Akbar joined the CEU Business School as an associate professor of Management and International Business, and in 2008 became the director of MBA programs.
Akbar has taught at universities and business schools all over the world, including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen’s University, Canada, European Business School, London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro. His main research interests are international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe, and non-market strategies of emerging-market multinationals.

Renira is a political economy doctoral student. She has a MSc in political economy from BI Norwegian School of Management and a BA in political science and economics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with an exchange semester at the University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include innovation and performance of public governance and agencies, corporate governance of state-owned companies, government-business relations across industries

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.

Dinara Asanbaeva received a degree of Specialist in Law from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (KRSU) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in 2002. From 2003 to 2003, she worked as a teaching assistant at the department of civil law of the KRSU and taught tutorials for undergraduate students in civil law and contract law. In 2003-2005, Dinara obtained LL.M in Law from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Her LL.M studies were focused on international commercial law, contract law and law of obligations. From 2005 to 2009, Dinara worked for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) educational project in Bishkek, the OSCE Academy, as academic supervisor.
In 2009, Dinara was admitted to the S.J.D. program of the CEU Legal Studies Department. She is currently working on her dissertation under the supervision of Professor Tibor Tajti. The focus of her research is corrupt practices on a corporate setting and limits of law in fighting corporate corruption.

Alexander Astrov received his PhD from The department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research is situated at the intersection of International Relations Theory and Political Theory, focussing mainly on the ideas of order and politics. He published two monographs on the subject and edited a volume exploring the idea of ‘great power management’ as it appears in the writings of the English School of International Relations and contemporary state-practices.

Alexander Astrov will be on sabbatical leave in the 2012/13 academic year.

SHLOMO AVINERI, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a graduate of the Hebrew University and the London School of Economics, and served as Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He held visiting appointments at Yale, Cornel, University of California, Cardozo School of Law, Australian National University, Oxford and Northwestern University; and has been a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both in Washington, D.C., the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow, and Collegium Budapest.
He is Recurring Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest.
In 1996 he received the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian decoration.
Among his books: The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, Israel and the Palestinians, Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization, The Making of Modern Zionism, Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism, and Communitarianism and Individualism.
His most recent book is an intellectual biography of Theodore Herzl (in Hebrew).

Zsuzsanna is a PhD student in philosophy at CEU. Her thesis concerns what one's sense of self constitutes in on an experiential level and how it may be connected to one's sense of one's body. Her research areas include the self; self-consciousness; neuro- and psychopathologies; embodiment; bodily awareness; personal identity and narrativity. Her general interest in philosophy is in the philosophy of mind; interdisciplinary approaches to psychopathology; some aspects of Phenomenology and metaphysics.

Yulia is a PhD candidate at CEU. Prior to the doctoral studies, Yulia completed a Master's course at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU. She has been involved in 3CSEP research projects on standby power consumption and energy efficiency programmes.

Erzsébet Barát is Associate Professor in the Department of English, at the University of Szeged and since 2000 Recurring Visiting Professor at CEU. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Social Sciences Faculty, Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include feminist critical theory, relational models of identity, and the relationship between language, power and ideology. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian journal, TNTeF: Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of Gender Studies (http:/primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/ieas/gender/tntef.htm). She launched and has organized the annual gender studies conference in Szeged since 2005. She is a regular contributor to edited volumes and journals. She has been invited to run courses in PhD programs, most recently at the University of Vienna and Masaryk University, Brno. She is currently co-editing the volume "Ideological Conceptualisations of Language: Discourses of linguistic diversity" to be published by Peter Lang in 2012.

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. Petra Bárd LL.M. SJD works as a researcher at the National Institute of Criminology. Since January 2010 she is Head of the Criminal Law Division of the National Institute of Criminology, Hungary. As a lecturer at the Central European University’s (CEU) Legal Studies Department she teaches EU constitutional law, EU criminal law, and selected issues in criminology and forensic sciences. At ELTE School of law she teaches criminology and data protection law. As researcher at the CEU Centre for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) she was participating in EU FP6 and FP7 projects investigating the legal framework of biobanks including their use for forensic purposes. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Hungarian Europe Society since 2003. In her writings she primarily addresses European constitutionalism, human rights in the European Union, the rights of persons living with disabilities, and judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters.
Petra Bárd received her LL.M. in international business law in 2001, and was awarded her S.J.D. summa cum laude in the field of comparative constitutional law in 2008 nostrified as Ph.D in 2010.

Rositsa Bateson teaches in the Higher Education Policy and Management Stream of the Department of Public Policy. She is also Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at the University of Southampton, UK.
Previously Vice President of Student Services at CEU (2000-2009), she is now Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Abertay Dundee (UK): http://www.abertay.ac.uk/about/theuni/management/rositsabateson/

Prof. Bellinger was the founder and the Chair (1994-2000) of the Environmental Sciences and Policy Department. He also served as the Director of Pollution and Environmental Studies, School of Biological Sciences, Manchester University (1979-1996). His research interests include management of ecological systems with special reference to freshwaters, studies on lake catchments and their impact on water quality

Ünige Bencze graduated History and Archaeology at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca in 2007. She finished MA at the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University of Budapest in 2008. Ünige is currently a doctoral candidate at the same department at CEU. She works on the historical development of monastic orders in medieval Transylvania and their impact on the religious, social and economic life of the region. Her work will also focus on the landscape analysis of the researched monasteries with two special case studies, one on Carta (Kerc,Kerz) Cistercian monastery and the other on Cluj-Manastur (Kolozsmonostor) Benedictine monastery.

Gabor Benke graduated in Hungary at ELTE Faculty of Law in 1987 with Summa Cum Laude. He obtained his LL.M. diploma at CEU in 2000. Gabor worked as legal counsel in commercial broadcasting for more than fifteen years, he was general counsel of the Hungarian television channel 'TV2' and worked as legal counsel in Berlin and Munich for the German media conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. He is now in the third year of the SJD program at CEU Legal Studies Comparative Constitutional Law stream. His area of interest is self-censorship and pluralism in the broadcast media.

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.

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

Zoltán Bodó teaches Marketing at CEU Business School. He has Master Degrees in Sociology from the West University of Temesvár, Society and Politics from the University of Lancaster, Social Theory from CEU, and Marketing from the Budapest University of Economics. Bodó held positions at renowned companies, including ACNielsen, TGI, and Coca-Cola where he was Business Intelligence Manager for Central Europe from 2003 to 2006. He is currently an independent senior Management consultant.

Kathleen Bohan is a PhD student at the Central European University’s Department of Environmental Science and Policy. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Biological and Environmental Engineering and a Master of Applied Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering. Having worked for five years in a number of engineering roles on the development of industrial gas turbines she has chosen to pursue a PhD at the CEU to develop a specialization in energy security policy with a focus on systems analysis and energy systems transitions.

Fanni Borbíró is a PhD candidate at the Public Policy Department. Her doctoral research topic is gender equality policies, especially in the context of urban governance. She holds an MA in History from Eötvös Loránd Science University, Budapest and an MA in European studies from Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration (currently Budapest Corvinus University). She has been engaged in gender equality and women’s rights issues since 2003, and has worked on several projects as public servant, NGO manager and freelance expert.

Graduated with a B.A. from The New School (Eugene Lang College) in New York. Graduated with an M.A. from Central European University in Budapest. Currently a PhD candidate at Central European University.

M.A., Liberal Studies, St. John's College (Annapolis); Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston College.
Teach and research in ethics, metaethics, applied ethics (business ethics/bioethics), political philosophy, theory of rational choice, critical thinking and reasoning. Especially interested in the particularism/genera​lism debate, practical rationality and the ramifications of behavioral economics for our understandings of agents and ethics, in particular integrity and corruption.

Darker areas of his past include a stint as a radio DJ in rural Ohio.

Márton holds a Bachalor degree in International Rural Innovation and Development from the Netherlands and M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Economics and Management from St. Stephan University Gödöllő. From October 2007 to March 2010 he was working on rural and community development projects. From March 2010 he became an attaché for environmental affairs at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU during Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. He joined the CEU community as a PhD student in September 2011. His PhD research topic is about the integration of environmental objectives into the European Common Agricultural Policy.

Erna is a PhD candidate in International Relations. She graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest (BA in International Relations, 2009) and Central European University (MA in International Relations and European Studies, 2010). She is also an alumna of Mathias Corvinus Collegium, where she has been involved in various tutoring responsibilities.

Her research focuses on the discourse on “responsibility to protect” and the problem of authority.

Zoltán Buzády is an assistant professor of management and organization at the CEU Business School. He has a BA in law from the London School of Economics, an MBA from Cass Business School, London, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from the Corvinus University in Budapest. He has taught at the University of Passau, Mannheim-ESSEC, Corvinus University.
Zoltan is also a transactional analysis trained executive and management coach.

Research interests: ancient philosophy, analytic philosophy, history of philosophy.

Andrea Canidio is assistant professor of economics at Central European University. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University. His research interests are Organizational Economics, Development Economics and Microeconomic Theory.

Paolo Cavaliere will teach Fundamentals of Media and Communications Policy in the Media, Information and Communications Policy stream of the Department of Public Policy for the academic year 2011-12.
He earned a Ph.D. in International Law and Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. His doctoral dissertation was on the economics and regulation of the media market. He also holds a law degree from the University of Pavia and an LL.M. in Public Law from University College, London. He has written about different aspects of Media law, including “mediacracy” and the democratic deficit of the EU and pluralism. His primary research interests focus on e-democracy, regulation of media pluralism and the relationship between new media and politics. Prior to joining CEU he was a Teaching Fellow at Bocconi University and a Joint Visiting Researcher at University of Pennsylvania Law School and Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, in Philadelphia.

Joy Chan joined the CEU Business School as an adjunct faculty member in 2006, where she teaches core and elective finance courses. Joy holds an Masters in Finance from University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Business from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She has also held senior positions in the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Trade Development Board in Singapore, the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore, and more recently at KPMG Central and Eastern Europe. She is currently a visiting professor at many European universities and works as executive education trainer for corporations and banks. Joy has been continuously rated excellent in teaching pedagogy by students, peers and ISO quality assessors.

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.

Mihail Chiru is a PhD Candidate in the Comparative Politics track since October 2010. He holds a BA in politics from the Bucharest University and a MA in political science from the CEU, with a certificate in electoral politics.
He published several articles and book reviews in journals such as European Union Politics, European Political Science Review, CEU Political Science Journal and The Romanian Journal of European Affairs.
His main academic interests are located in the fields of legislative studies (legislative recruitment, roll-call analysis, party discipline), and voting behavior.
Since October 2010 he is a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC)

Currently a Senior Research Fellow at the CEU/CEMS. She graduated from the University of Athens, Greece (BA in History, Archaeology and Art History) and received her MA (2006) and PhD (2011) in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. Her PhD thesis is titled: ‘Unknown Byzantine Art in the Balkan Area: Art, Power and Patronage in 12th to 14th century churches in Albania’, supervised by Dr. Antony Eastmond. Her current research is focused on: a) developing her thesis into a publication on Art Production and Patronage, Power and Society in Middle and Late Byzantine Albania and, b) exploring the ways and purposes for which the Byzantine Imperial Image – or ‘its mimesis’- was used along the fringes and outside the Byzantine Empire (including also Central Europe and the Caucasus).
She has held scholarships from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. She has lived and worked in Albania for several years where she picked up her art historic interest in the country and cooperated with the Museum of Berat and the National Institute of Monuments. She has worked in excavations in Greece, France and Cyprus. She has delivered papers on Medieval Albania in various conferences and has currently three publications underway.
Interests: Byzantine art in all forms with emphasis on iconography (wall paintings, manuscripts, coins, liturgical objects); Medieval art in the Balkan region; artistic interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean; movement of ideas through art; medieval multicultural societies and cultural geography; use of images as historical evidence; functions of art and patronage; association between art and the formulation of social and political identities; medieval political ideologies and their accommodation through art; the concept of ‘propaganda’ in medieval art.

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

My research focuses on various aspects of cognitive development in human infants. Specifically, I study infants' visual processing from the level of spatial attention and eye-movement control through the intermediate levels of object and face perception to the level of interpretation of observed actions in terms of goals and understanding of communicative signals. I am also interested in how cognitive processes are accomplished by the human brain and how cognitive development can be explained by the neural development in infancy. Beyond behavioral measures, I use high-density event-related potentials and near-infrared spectoscropy (optical imaging) to measure the on-line functioning of the brain while infants are engaged in various activities.

Currently I am doing research on Noether's bound together with my advisor, Mátyás Domokos

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.

Enikő Demény is a Junior Researcher at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB). She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2006 at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. Her research interests include the impact of new technologies on identity and the family; ethical, legal, social and policy aspects of new converging technologies (biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences); social sciences and bioethics, gender and science, feminist epistemology, the anthropology of international bioethics governance.

Andrey is probationary PhD student at the CEU Doctoral School, Public Policy track. He's got two degrees: BA in Political Science from Petrozavodsk State University (2004) in Russia and MPhil in Political Science from Saint-Petersburg State University (2008). Andrey has also worked as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at his home university and as a project manager of the EU-funded educational and research projects. His professional experience includes working for several research projects in Russia and Finland, NGOs and Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office of the UK government.
His interests include issues of state/third sector relations in Russia, practices of cross-border cooperation of the Russian NGOs with their European counterparts, European civil society and Europeanisation of third sector organisations in the EU member states and European studies in general.

Graduated (Vale Dictoria) from the "Petru Maior" University (Targu Mures, Romania) in 2004, Faculty of Letters: History--English Language and Literature specialization, being granted a BA in History and Philology. Holds and MA in Comparative History (CEU, 2005) and currently enrolled in the PhD program of the Department of History, CEU. Working title of the dissertation: "Configurations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the 17th – 18th Centuries". Thesis supervisor: Professor Emerita Péter Katalin. Second reader: Assistant Professor Matthias Riedl. Status: all but dissertation. Expected date of submission: 2011.

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).

After graduating Classical Philology in Sofia University (BA) and defending her Master thesis on Byzantine historiography at CEU Ivana Dobcheva is currently a PhD student. Her research is devoted to the transmission and reception of the Aratea in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages. The topic combines her primary interest in manuscript studies, classical literature, and transmission of ideas in the Middle Ages.

Helga is Instructor at the CEU Center for Teaching and Learning and also Project Officer of the Office of the Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs. As a PhD in Educational Science and a junior researcher, she has been member of the validation teams of the EU funded research and development projects eTwinning, CALIBRATE and Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP Lab) project. Her research interests include social aspects of learning in online environments, online mentoring and professional development related to educational technology.

Zoltán is a Political Science PhD Student. He holds an MA in Nationalism Studies from CEU and concluded his degree in Political Science at Lisbon's Universidade Tecnica, having also studied in Kiev, Ukraine and Prague, Czech Republic.
He has worked as a journalist in Hungary, Ukraine and the Czech Republic where he became interested in regional politics.
His research focuses on the Politics of Memory of post-communist Hungary and the Czech Republic.

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.

As a Phd candidate in economics my research interest is allocation of non-conventional resources with focus on environment- and knowledge related issues.
Prior to starting my Phd; I have been working on structured products for emission trading and renewable-energy related consultancy projects. Previously; I was working for one of the biggest venture capital funded startup company in Central Europe; as a manager for expansion and new products.
I obtained my master degree in Investment analyis and risk management at Corvinus University. I have also completed the business program at Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

Maria Findrik is CEU Business Schools’s Director for Executive Education programs. She teaches various courses on business economics and competitiveness, and is also a visiting Professor to the IMM multi-campus global Executive MBA offered by jointly together by CEU and three other leading universities in Europe, America, and Asia. Maria has taught at leading institutions including the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western (Cleveland) and Columbia University (New York) and is a visiting Professor.Her research interest includes macro and micro analysis of the business environment, international competitive analysis, the transition process from emerging economies to established market economies and its social impact, and the regulation of natural monopolies. She holds a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

From 2012.

Jay Fogelman has been teaching at CEU Business School since 2005. He has more than 30 years of experience in business, including 25 in IT services and related fields. He has held regional, intercontinental and global management positions with the Amdahl Corporation, EMC Corporation and SAS Scandinavian Airlines. He is an experienced lecturer, consultant, executive coach, project manager, and has delivered sales training for some of the world’s largest technology companies across Europe and America. From 2000 to 2001, he managed EMC’s business consulting practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Fogelman holds an MA in philosophy of science from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA with special honors in philosophy from Lake Forest College in Illinois.
He is the Business School's representative in the CEU Senate.

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.

Stela Garaz is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at CEU. Previously she received an M.A. degree in political science at CEU and a licentiate diploma at State University of Moldova.
Her research is mainly focused on democratic institutions and ethnic politics in post-Soviet countries. The main goal of Stela's Ph.D. project is to determine whether the regimes with concentrated political power, by virtue of their inner logic, are conducive to inter-ethnic instability in the post-Soviet multi-ethnic states.

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

Zsuzsanna Gedeon graduated from the Faculty of Law at ELTE in Budapest, in 2010. She obtained her LLM degree in Comparative Constitutional Law from CEU in 2011. The same year she was accepted to the SJD program at CEU. Her main focus is on separation of powers among the political branches and on constitutional constraints on the executive power in different forms of government.

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.

After completing a Ph.D. in Sociology at New York University, Dorit was the Vincent Wright Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2006-2007), followed by four years as a Collegiate Assistant Professor, and Harper Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago (2007-2011) teaching social theory in the College Core. She joined the Central European University as an Assistant Professor in Autumn 2011. Dorit's expertise is in political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, and feminist social and political theory. Her comparative book on the politics of military service in France and the United States will be published by Cambridge University Press. Her scholarship is concerned with an engagement between neo-Weberian approaches to political modernity, and feminist theories of politics and the modern state. Dorit is especially interested in the place of kinship and family in contemporary politics and political organization.

Lucas is an Argentine lawyer who got his law degree in 2002 at the National University of Cordoba, his home city.
Before graduation he joined INECIP, an Argentine NGO devoted to criminal justice reform in Latin America, where he run several programs on democratic security, citizen empowerment and clinical education. Meanwhile he also practiced as a private lawyer in civil, criminal and strategic litigation.
Lucas also lectured in a Constitutional Case Law seminar held in his University, where he collaborated as Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law and Criminal Law.
In 2007 he obtained the OSJI Fellowship and subsequently took his LLM in Human Rights at the Central European University.
In 2009 he applied and was accepted to the Doctoral Program at CEU as an SJD Candidate in Comparative Constitutional Law.

Tom Glaser retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in 2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and, since 1993, with the enlargement process.His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million. He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.

Marie-Pierre Granger is Associate Professor at CEU. She has a joint appointment between the department of Public Policy, IRES and Legal Studies. She joined CEU in 2004, teaching a range of courses in the fields of European integration and governance, European Union law, comparative and international public law, and public administration.

Michael Griffin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy.  He has also been a visitor in the Institute for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, and the philosophy departments at the University of Colorado, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Wake Forest University, and the University of Virginia.  His current research interests focus on philosophers of the early modern period, especially Leibniz, Descartes, Spinoza and Locke.

Mukesh holds a Masters degree in Environmental Sciences & Policy from the Clark University, USA and a Bachelor degree in Biology from India. He has worked with non-profit organizations on Payment for Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity conservation, Climate Change, and community mobilization issues in India and the USA. In his Ph.D. Mukesh deals with implications of developing low carbon growth strategies in India with special reference to energy efficient buildings.

I am working on Freedom. I love to hang around Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic and continental philosophers - no matter which continent it is... or which island. I am from Hungary.

Corina Haita holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economic Analyses from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the Central European University in Budapest. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the Central European University. Apart from her research activity she has been a teaching assistant for Microeconomics and Mathematics courses for the 1st year master students at the departments of Economics and Public Policy. Her main research interests are: microeconomics, industrial organisation, experimental economics, environmental economics and applied auction theory.

Prof Hancke is a reader in Political Economy at the Londond School of Economics and a visiting Professor at the Departments of Political Science and IRES at CEU Fall 2007 to Winter 2008.

Peter Hardi has been a professor of business ethics and corporate social responsibility at the CEU Business School and the Director of the Center for Business and Society since joining the faculty in 2006. His current research focuses on the role of business in society and the interaction with major social partners and on the linkage between resource management and social outcomes, particularly the efficiency and sustainability of resource use in CEE and Central Asia. As director of the Center for Business and Society, Hardi heads several research projects dealing with corporate ethics and sustainable business practices.

I studied at CEU in 2004-2005 and now I joined it again for the PhD with focus on climate change and energy efficiency.

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.

Daniel graduated as a PhD student of Political Science at Central European University in Budapest and a junior fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the effectiveness and inequality of education, and the political economy of education. He has published in English in Educational Research and Evaluation and in Prospects, and also in several Hungarian publications such as the Education in Hungary 2006.

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.

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.

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.

Dora is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU. She holds a BA degree in Archaeology, History, and Latin Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and an MA degree in Medieval Studies from CEU, Budapest. Dora is a student of late antiquity specializing in eastern Mediterranean, and her research interests are socio-political and legal history of the later Roman Empire with a focus on the relationship between the emperor, and secular and religious elites.

Jana Jasečková received her Master at Law degree from University of Pavol Jozef Safarik in Kosice, Slovakia in 2007 and LL.M in Comparative Constitutional Law from Central European University in 2008. Afterwards she was granted one year fellowship in Open Society Justice Initiative as a legal fellow in National Criminal Justice Reform program. In 2009 she was admitted to the SJD program in Legal Studies Department at Central European University, where she is working on her dissertation under supervision of Prof. Daniel Smilov.
In her doctoral research, Jana focuses on changing functions of parliaments.

Erin K. Jenne is an associate professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest, where she teaches MA and PhD courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict management, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security. Jenne received her PhD in political science from Stanford University with concentrations in comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, and East European politics. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur fellowship at Stanford University, a Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) fellowship at Harvard University, a Carnegie Corporation scholarship, and a Fernand Braudel fellowship at European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Her recent book, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007) is the winner of Mershon Center’s Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in 2007 and was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. The book is based on her dissertation, which won the Seymour Martin Lipset Award for Best Comparativist Dissertation in 2001. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Civil Wars, and Ethnopolitics (forthcoming). She is an associate editor for Foreign Policy Analysis and has served in several capacities on the Emigration, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Gerda Jónász is a 4th year PhD candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, active member of the Environmental and Social Justice Action Research Group. She was a visiting scholar at ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on the social aspects of local ecological entrepreneurship in the threatened periurban surroundings in Valencia, Spain.

She holds a BA in Economic Diplomacy and International Management (Budapest Business school) and an MSc in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (joint degree under the MESPOM program of Central European University, Lund University, and the University of Manchester). During her master’s research she conducted field research in Spain and obtained a scholarship to do a comparative study in Canada.
Gerda was affiliated to the 3CSEP research center as a junior consultant in the “Post-Lisbon Strategy background research project”, worked for WWF Hungary as an intern and later volunteer.
Her areas of interest are: rural development, environmental justice and the social aspects of sustainable agriculture.

Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate, Deputy Program Director "Migration", the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. 

Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions (the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, etc.). Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA) and a founding member and Fellow of the Slovak Economic Association.

His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, Migration, and reforms in Central Eastern European labor markets.

He has published in international refereed journals, contributed a number of chapters in edited volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OxfordUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and journal special issues. He is the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of European Labor Studies.

Cem Kayalıgil is currently writing a PhD thesis, discussing issues surrounding causal realism. He also likes to read academic material in philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, aesthetics, metaphilosophy and philosophy of film.

Gábor Kézdi is Associate Professor at Central European University (CEU) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IEHAS). He received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 2003 and joined the CEU faculty in 2004. His research interests include labor economics (especially human capital formation), other areas of applied microeconomics (especially household behavior under uncertainty), applied cross-sectional and panel econometrics, and program evaluation.

Andrea teaches academic writing in the Departments of Gender Studies, Philosophy, Medieval Studies, History, Nationalism and Legal Studies. Since she joined the Writing Center in 2004, she has been involved in various outreach projects, teaching writing courses for Hungarian universities and the Hungarian National Bank as well as delivering research writing workshops for the Max Planck Institute in Germany and France. Andrea holds an MA in English and German Language, Literature and Teaching and a PhD in Postmodern English Literature and Culture from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her work has appeared in the Neo-Victorian Studies Journal, The AnaChronist and Holmi.

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.

Intersectionality embodies.
Main research interests:

András Kiss is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics at CEU and a research associate at the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research interests include topics in online consumer search and firm pricing behavior, and in the deregulation of energy markets.

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

Kristina is an international trade and investment lawyer with a Master of International Law and Economics (MILE) degree from the World Trade Institute, the University of Bern, Switzerland; Ukrainian lawyer with LL.B degree from Odessa National Academy of Law. She is also a certified mediator accredited by American Bar Association.
Kristina has worked as the Legal Assistant to the Member of the Ukrainian Parliament since 2010. She also worked at Andriy Kravets & Partners Law Offices, advising on corporate law and dealing with dispute settlement. Kristina participated in the Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine 2009-2010 (USAID). Here, she worked with the Ministry of Justice, focusing on international legal collaboration, international private law and international legal assistance.
Kristina has also attended courses on International Maritime Law, International Business Law, Commercial Arbitration and Capital Markets and she is a member of the European Law Students’ Association, International Law Students’ Association and Ukrainian Bar Association.
Kristina is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English with the intermediate level of German.

Daniel works on contemporary analytic idealism, focusing on the writings of Howard Robinson, John Foster and Timothy Sprigge, as well as their historical antecedents, Berkeley and Leibniz in particular. He is interested in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and logic. He has an MA in philosophy from the University of Pécs and an MA in economics from Corvinus University, Budapest.

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.

Márta Kondor studied at the University of Pécs (MA in History and in Latin) and at the Central European University (MA in Medieval Studies). She taught history at secondary school, worked as visiting lecturer and research assistant at the University of Pécs; lately she was employed as a junior scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Márta’s current research is focused on King and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg. Her papers were published in English, German and Hungarian.

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.

PhD (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Joanna Maria Kostka is Doctoral Student at Political Science Department, Public Policy track. She received her MA in Public Policy and Administration from the Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She is interested in the emergence of the Roma-inclusion strategy at the European Level. For her dissertation she is researching the Roma-inclusion strategies in European Structural Funds Distribution. She is currently teaching the Intorduction to Political Science and European Studies at the Roma Access Program    
 

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.

Renata is Doctoral Candidate at Political Science Department, Public Policy track. She is first CEU PhD student awarded Yehuda Elkana Fellowship. Her first MA was in Psychology from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (2002). Her second MA was from CEU in International relations and European studies (2003). Her present research interest includes: changes in higher education (HE) governance as result of interplay of domestic actors and international influence; mobility in HE.

Renata has over 15 years of experience with HE policy - as student leader, civil servant and analyst in Slovak Governance Institute. In 2009 she was the most cited expert on education in Slovakia. 2010-2012 she worked as Slovak Prime Minister’s external adviser in the area of education. In 2010 she co-established Higher Education Research Group at CEU. Now she is member of supervisory 3 boards of Academic Ranking and Rating Agency, Slovak Academic and Information Agency, Loan Fund for Starting Teachers.

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.

Writing PhD on Kant's aesthetic theory, focusing on the problem of negative judgments of taste. Interested in historical and contemporary aesthetic theories and philosophy of art.

Xymena Kurowska is an IR theorist interested in interpretive policy analysis. She earned her doctoral degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her research and writing concentrate on interdisciplinary approaches to security and international state-building, with the focus on EU’s security policy making and border policies in EU’s Eastern Neighbouhood. She is a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme. She is also currently researching defence cooperation in Central Europe.

Will Kymlicka received his B.A. in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987. His career has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is the author of six books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). He is also the co-editor of Citizenship in Diverse Societies (2000), and Multiculturalism and the Welfare State (2006). He is currently the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and a visiting professor in Nationalism Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. A frequent advisor to governments and international organizations, his works have been translated into 32 languages.

Viktor Lagutov joined CEU in 1997.

Archaeology of the Middle Ages;
medieval monastic culture

Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.  He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in New York City and a PhD in history from Harvard University.  He is a widely published scholar in the ares of educational history, higher education, and social policy.  A member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.), he is past president of the History of Education Society.  He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia, as well as the Penn, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School of Education and the university's interim provost.  In addition to teaching at CEU, he coordinates the higher education policy stream in the Department of Public Policy.

Florin has a B.A. in Classics (University of Iasi, Romania) and an M.A. in Medieval Studies (CEU, Budapest). As a PhD student, he is studying late Byzantine rhetoric with a particular focus on the orations of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos.

Johan Lilliestam is a PhD student at the CEU. He writes his thesis about energy security in a future climate-friendly European power system partly based on imports of renewable electricity from North Africa. Mr. Lilliestam's wider research interest is European energy and climate policy, with a special focus on imports of renewable electricity from North Africa. He currently works at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, Germany, and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. Johan Lilliestam holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Sciences from Göteborg University, Sweden, and a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Management from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Comparative Politics Track.

Olga Löblová is a first-year PhD student at the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations -- Public Policy track. She is interested in welfare state policies, particularly in healthcare and pension reform.

Olga holds an M.A. degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (2009), where she wrote her master's thesis on the discourse of Slovak pension and healthcare reforms. She also has an M.A. degree in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw (2010), where she specialized on Europe As a Regional Actor.

She reads and writes in Czech, English, French, and German; she also speaks Polish and some Hungarian. Her geographical area of interest is Central and Eastern Europe.

Zsófia Lóránd was born in 1979 in Budapest. She studied comparative literature, political science and English literature and linguistics at ELTE, and comparative East European history at the History Department of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. Currently she is a PhD candidate there. Her research topic is the intellectual history of feminism in post-WWII state-socialist Eastern Europe, with special focus on the former Yugoslavia. She has been member of the presidential board of the “Attila József” Circle (JAK) since 2003 and was the editor of the JAK World Literature Series between 2003 and 2008. She has been the project leader of the JAK–Solitude residential art program since 2005. Since 2007 she is the editor of the BÓRA Books (http://borabooks.blogspot.com/), a fiction series publishing South Slavic women’s literature in Hungarian language. She is also volunteer activist of NANE, the Hungarian feminist organisation working against domestic violence, where she has been active on the SOS hotline since 2009.

Jasmina Lukić, is an Associate Professor, Head Department of Gender Studies (since 2009) and the CEU coordinator for Erasmus Mundus MA Program in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies GEMMA (since 2005). She has been a co-founder and the editor in chief of the journal for feminist theory Ženske studije (Beograd 1996-1999) and an associate editor of The European Journal of Women’s Studies (1999-2009). She is a member of the editorial board of Aspasia International Yearbook on Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender history (since 2006)
Her research interests are in literary and cultural studies, and in South-Slavic literatures. She has published a number of articles and book chapters in English, Serbian and Croatian. Her publications include a collection of critical studies Drugo lice (The Other Face, Beograd 1984), and a monograph Metaproza: čitanje žanra (Metafiction: Reading the Genre, Beograd 2001). Together with Joanna Regulska and Darja Zavirsek she has edited a volume Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe (2006). She has also edited a Special Issue of European Journal of Women’s Studies on Women, Identity, and Identification: “Who are I” (2003) and a Special Issue of European Journal of Women’s Studies on Writing across Borders (with Paola Bono, 2009).

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.

The title of my webpage is www.cs.elte.hu/~magap. I also maintain a copy at www.renyi.hu/~magap.

Born in 1975, Zsolt Magyar was educated at the University of Pécs, the Theological College of Pécs and the University of Sheffield. His research interest is the funerary commemoration of the Late Roman Empire, especially mausolea. He taught Classical Archaeology and History of Religion in the Univesity of Debrecen and published papers, among others, about different influences in Late Roman Sopianae and the relation of the imperial cult to Christianity. An Academic Visitor at the Univesity of Oxford in 2010. Now he is working on his PhD thesis about the mausolea of Pannonia and Dalmatia in Late Antiquity.

Judit Majorossy graduated from History and English language and literature at Janus Pannonius University in Pécs (Fünfkirchen) before studying at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (MA, PhD). She defended her PhD dissertation in 2006. Afterwards, she obtained several post-doctoral scholarships in Hungary (Magyary Zoltán Fellowship, OTKA) and was affiliated to the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, but she also had extensive research periods abroad, in Edinburgh at the Advanced Studies Institute with nominated fellowship and in Münster (Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte) with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. As a returning Humboldt-fellow she continues her postdoctoral researcher on the project " Urban Space and Urban Society: Comparative Investigation of the Usage of Space, Social Topography and Social Networks in Western Hungary (1400–1550)" as an alumna at the Department of Medieval Studies.

Ivona Malbasic joined CEU in 2004, as a research program coordinator of Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism project at CPS. Prior to joining ASRD office, Ivona was Administrative Director of Open Century Project where she managed Open Society Fellowship program.

Ivona holds an MSc from CEU Environmental Sciences and Policy Department. Her recent publications include “The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism”, (co-ed.) with Richard Higgott, Routledge: 2008; “Voice of the People 2007”, (co-ed.) with Jeannette Goehring and Victoria Hill, Gallup International Association: 2008; and Course Module Watchdogging (author) in “Master Class: Strengthening the role and function of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to Promote Change and Enable Action in the Urban Environment”, The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Szentendre: 2008.

Divna Manolova graduated the Philosophy Department at Sofia University and the Medieval Studies Department at CEU, Budapest. Divna is currently a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies Department, CEU and works on philosophy and letter-writing in fourteenth-century Byzantium with primary focus on the correspondence of Nikephoros Gregoras.

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.

Diane is a passionate environmental expert in the field of conservation. Driven by her enthusiasm to make a valuable contribution to nature protection in her home-country (Lebanon), she has fund-raised and managed many NGO projects in eco-tourism, biodiversity research and monitoring, and rural development. Diane graduated in 2009 from the joint Erasmus MSc. degree in Environmental Sciences Policy and Management granted by CEU, University of Manchester and Lund University, with Distinction on her thesis work. She is now pursuing her first academic year of PhD with research interests in protected area management effectiveness and international conservation programs.

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.

Gergo holds an MA in International Studies (2005) from Corvinus University of Budapest and a post-graduate master’s degree in International Business Economics (2006) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). In 2005, he received the Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Council of National Scientific Student’s Association of Hungary. He is a member of the Political Economy Research Group at CEU. Since September 2009 he also works at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a junior research fellow. He writes his PhD on the patterns of uneven regional development in postsocialist Central Europe.

Juraj is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science. His subfields are Methodology and Comparative Politics. His dissertation project is on think tanks in postcommunist countries.

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.

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.

Professor Mihályi started his academic career after graduation from the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences in Budapest. Between 1983-1993, he was a researcher of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva. After returning to his native country, he became an active participant of the Hungarian privatization process. He served – inter alia – as Deputy Government Commissioner for Privatization in 1994/95 and played a major role in the largest transactions in energy and banking. In 1997/98 he was promoted to Deputy State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. His portfolio included the pension reform, the preparation of the healthcare reform and municipal financing.

During the last 10 years, Professor Mihalyi's research has been focused on health policy issues. He is currently affiliated with the University of Pannonia (Veszprém - Hungary) and the Central European University. Professor Mihályi is an often consulted expert by UNCTAD, UN ECE, the World Bank and the European Union. He authored 12 books, from which five dealt with healthcare. His most recent English-language book is entitled, Health Insurance Reform in Hungary, Vol.1-2.

MR. GORAN MILJAN

Permanent address
Meštrovićev trg 8
Zagreb 10 000, CROATIA
E-mail: goran.miljan@gmail.com
Telephone: ¬+385 (0)98 16 090 16
Citizenship: Croatian

EDUCATION AND ACADEMICS

2009 - Awarded scholarship for PhD program at the Department of History, Central European
University, Budapest

2008 – 2009 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Master’s degree in Central European History (HIS)
Expected graduation in 2009

2001 – 2006 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Master’s degree in History, Department of History

HONORS AND AWARDS

2007 Awarded scholarship for the participation at the Venice Summer school “Finance, Institutions and History” 3.-8. September 2007.

2005 As the president of the International Students of History Association, ISHA-Zagreb received an award for “Promoting International Relations” awarded by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

2007 - 2008 Profil Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia

Research assistant
- Research and development of historical texts for the multimedia historical atlas for high schools
- Multimedia historical atlas was issued, relevance of the facts presented in it
- Development of skills necessary for working in team groups

2008 Profil Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia

Co - Author of a High school textbook for the 4th grade of gymnasium

- Research and presentation of historical texts on 20th century world history
- Development of methodological and didactical skills
- Capability of co – operation and working in groups
- Presentation skills
- Abillity to work under supervisors and strictly determined deadlines

BOOK REVIEWS

• Comparative Fascist Studies – New Perspectives, ed. Constantin Iordachi. Časopis za suvremenu povijest [The Journal for Contemporary History], Vol. 43, br. 1. Zagreb: Hrvatski institut za povijest, 2011.

• Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second Worl War, Davide Rodogno. East Central Europe, Vol 38, br. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

ACTIVITIES / PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS

2005 – 2006 President of International Students of History Association, ISHA-Zagreb

2005 Head of organizational board for international student’s seminar "Cultural and Historiographical Perception of the Balkans"

2004 – 2005 Founder of the journal "Pro tempore" published by students of the History Department at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, and member of its editorial board

2003 – 2004 Vice-president of International Students of History Association, ISHA-Zagreb

2002 Member of organizational board for international students seminar “Human Rights through History”, Dubrovnik

2001 Volunteer at the Motovun Film Festival, Croatia

2000 Participated in conducting population census in Croatia

SKILLS

Language skills:
• Croatian: native English: fluent Italian: medium Russian: beginner

Computer skills:
• Microsoft Office, Internet

Personal skills and attributes:
• Good ability to adapt to multicultural environments gained through my participation at international seminars and conferences
• Good communication skills
• Good presentation skills
• Avid reader of newspapers (The Economist, Le Monde Diplomatique-Croatian issue, Croatian weekly newspapers)

INTERESTS

- European and world modern history, politics and economies

- Development of European Union

- Balkan integrations

AVAILABILITY FOR WORK:
Part-time positions: yes
Available for relocating: anywhere

Michael L. Miller is an associate professor in the Nationalism Studies program at Central European University in Budapest. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where he specialized in Jewish and Central European History. His research focuses on the impact of nationality conflicts on the religious, cultural, and political development of Central European Jewry in the nineteenth century. He has recently published articles in Slavic Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, and Múlt és Jövő. Miller’s book, Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation, was just published by Stanford University Press.

Born  in Zagreb, Croatia, Nov.1., 1950. Studied philosophy and social science in Zagreb University, and at the University of Chicago (1969/70), graduated 1972, Zagreb. Post-graduate studies at the Univerisity of Paris-X (Nanterre) with Paul Ricoeur. DES en philospophie from Universite de Paris X.  Doctorate on "Theories of communication intention-Austin, Grice, Strawson" 1981. University of Ljubljana. After a semestar at the University of Rijeka, taught philosophy at the Philosophy department in Zadar, Croatia, from 1975 to 1993. Presently full professor of philosophy at Philosophy department of the University of Maribor, Slovenia and Director of Doctorate Support Program at Central European University Budapest
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Kalman Mizsei holds a PhD from the Budapest University of Economics. He is currently the European Union Special Representative for Moldova.  Previosuly he served as UNDP Regional Director for Europe anad the CIS. At the CEU Department of Public Policy he teaches Globalization and Global Governance

Andres Moles read Philosophy at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) finishing in 2001, and received an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory (2003) and a PhD in Politics (2007) both at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests cover a range of topics in contemporary political and moral philosophy, with particular reference to liberal and democratic thought, and issues concerning social and distributive justice.

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

Natalia Morozova has completed her doctoral studies at the Department of International Relations and European Studies (IRES). She earned her MA from IRES in 2001 writing her Master’s thesis on the Realist interpretation of Tolstoy’s view of history in ‘War and Peace’. Natalia’s research interests include international relations theory, international political theory, Russian post-Soviet foreign policy and political discourse.
Natalia Morozova graduated in 2011/12.

Johannes Müller holds a B.A. in Political Science from Bielefeld University, Germany, attended the International Program of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and earned an M.A. in 'International Relations: Global Governance and Social Theory' from Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Bremen. Johannes also co-founded and co-managed an internet/media agency, was a consultant for the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (UNEP/AEWA) and an intern in the Representation of the European Commission in Berlin. Since 2009, Johannes has been working towards a PhD in the International Relations track of the Doctoral School at CEU. His research interests include (North/South) regional integration, European foreign policy, and multilateral environmental governance. His dissertation specifically addresses Euro-Mediterranean political / institutional integration. Johannes speaks English, German, French and Spanish, as well as some Portuguese, Arabic, and Hungarian.

Githii Mweru is an Advocate in Kenya and has an LL.B from the University of London and an LL.M in Human Rights from the Central European University. He has worked in the field of human rights with several civil society organisations for a number of years. Just before he enrolled for his S.J.D., he was a Programme Coordinator at Kituo Cha Sheria – Kenya (The Centre for Legal Empowerment).

His research interest is on access to justice and socio-economic rights. His doctoral thesis is: The Problematics of Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication: Realities, Illusions, and Solutions.

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.

Andreea Năstase is a PhD candidate at CEU's Department of Public Policy. Her academic interests are in the areas of public management and administration, European affairs, corruption and anti-corruption policy. In her PhD project, she researches public office ethics in the context of the European Commission, focusing particularly on the European civil service. Andreea holds an MA in Public Policy from CEU (2006) and a BA in Political Science from the University of Bucharest, Romania.