Faculty and Staff

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.

Alexander Astrov received his MA in History from Central European University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and econonmics, 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. Her research interests include domestic politics and European integration, corruption and corruption control, and more recently cohesion policy.

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.

Thilo Bodenstein holds a Dr in Comparative Political Science and International Relations from the University of Konstanz (Germany). He joined the Department of Public Policy in 2009. His research includes international political economy and international development.

György Bőgel works at CEU Business School as Professor of Management. He launched project-based action learning courses in 2001. He teaches courses on organizational behavior, outsourcing and entrepreneurship plus participates in many company projects at the school’s executive education unit. His main research field is the influence of technological development on management structures and processes.

Eric works primarily on ethical issues, with a particular interest in business ethics, bioethics, and metaethical theory. He is comfortable working in both the analytic and Continental traditions of philosophy, with a solid grounding in the history of philosophy, especially modern philosophy.
His current research projects include papers on the role and nature of fiduciary duties in their social and political dimensions and as a basis for business ethics, an assessment of the fitting-attitude analysis of value, and whether or not it should be said that we love (e.g., family members) for reasons. 
He was a Junior Fellow at the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna and  Gastwissenschaftler at the August Herzog Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany reseaching pre-Kantian early modern philosophy of law and conceptions of cosmopolitanism.

Zoltán Buzády is Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the CEU Business School.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the London School of Economics, a Master in Business Administration degree from Cass Business School, London, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from the Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as management consulting experience and entrepreneurial experiences. He has been teaching at the University of Passau, on MBA and Executive MBA programs of Mannheim-ESSEC, Corvinus University and CEU Business School during the last 10 years.
He has gained experience in various business consulting and management coaching projects.

Andrew Cartwright works at the Center for Policy Studies.  His research concentrates on social and econonomic 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 has worked in CEU from 2000. His research interests include environmental assessment, strategic environmental assessment, sustainable development strategies, sustainability and transition to market economies, energy and environmental security. He is the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission and a Coordinating Lead Analyst (Energy Security) in the Global Energy Assessment.

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 is Professor of Economics at CEU and Senior Economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.  He has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991, and has served as department head (1993-1995) and director of the PhD program (2003-2006).  In 1994, he set up the CEU Labor Project as an externally funded unit of the university to promote research on labor economics and other applied microeconomic issues, with particular focus on the transition in CEU's regional neighborhood.  The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Frameworks, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region.

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.

Katalin Farkas is a professor of philosophy in the Central European University. She studied mathematics and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She is interested in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, skepticism, and Descartes.

Alex Fischer served as full-time faculty member at the Department of Public Policy from 2005 until 2007. Currently he works as a political advisor for  WWF Switzerland  and in addition, he kept his affiliation with CEU as Associate Professor.

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.

Byzantine history, c.600–1500;
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.

Prior to joining CEU, Andreas Goldthau 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)

Béla Greskovits is professor and has a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, and comparative development and democratization. He has taught courses on the above at the Central European University (Budapest and Warsaw), Cornell University, and Harvard University. His most recent articles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, Labor History, Orbis, West European Politics, Competition and Change, and Journal of Democracy.

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.

Julius Horvath, born in Nove Zamky, Slovakia in 1955, is Hungarian University Professor from 2009, Professor at the Central European University from 2005, Chairman of the Department of Economics at the Central European University from 2006. He served as Chairman of the Department of International Relations and European Studies from 2002 till 2006. He obtained his Ph.D. from SIU-C in 1996. His main interest lies in international economics, political economy of monetary relations, history of economic thought, and political economy. He has published in several journals as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, International Economic Journal, Post-Communist Economies, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Integration. He is a member of the Slovak Accreditation Committee Board. 

Ferenc Huoranszki is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Central European University. His interests include metaphysics and the philosophy of action, particularly the questions of free will, causation, modality, and 18th century metaphysics and ethics.

Jenne received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Political Science Department at 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 Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford; a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Harvard University, and a two-year Carnegie Corporation Scholarship for a book project that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that of postcommunist Europe. Erin K. Jenne  teaches Masters and Ph.D. courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security.

Achim Kemmerling holds a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin. Before coming to CEU he worked at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Jacobs University Bremen and the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. His research interests include the political economy of social and labour market policies, taxation and development.

Youngmi has joined CEU in AY 2009/2010. Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007, and has been at the University of Edinburgh thereafter until her move to CEU. 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. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. 

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.

Religious & cultural history of the Middle Ages;
the Middle Ages in modern (nationalist) discourse

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 sent 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.

Andrea Krizsan is Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies since 2001. She works in different equality policy related comparative research projects and co-teaches a course on Comparative Equality Policy. Andrea has a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University.

Xymena Kurowska received her PhD from the European University Institute in 2008 with the thesis The politics behind a policy: framing European Security and Defence Policy. Her research concentrates on interdisciplinary approaches to security studies and European foreign policy, including statebuilding. She is a grant holder from the European Foreign and Security Studies Programme and part of research community on Critical Approaches to Security in Europe. She is an IR theorist interested in interpretive policy analysis and ethnographic methods as applied in IR and European studies research.

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.

Levente (Levi) received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 where he also studied Survey Research and Methodology. He has held visiting positions in multiple departments of the Eotvos Lorand University and the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Psychology. He has taught a number of workshops on missing data. Predominantly a methodologist, Levi’s research strives to find new analytical strategies to complex problems and research questions in any field of science.

Late antiquity; history of religion

Stefan Messmann is Professor of International Business Law at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, since 1998. He also served as Academic Pro-Rector of CEU between 1999 and 2003.

Zoltan Miklosi received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from ELTE University, where he specialized in political and moral philosophy. His research areas concern questions of political obligation, distributive justice, and the problem of global justice. His current work focuses on the role of institutions in specifying the requirements of justice, and on how different distributive concerns regarding process and outcome may be integrated within a unified theory of distributive justice.

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.

Daniel Monterescu studies ethnic relations and urban space in bi-national (mixed) towns as part of a larger project on identity, sociality and gender relations in Mediterranean Cities. His previous projects examine the construction of Arab masculinity and the narration of life stories in Jaffa. His publications feature articles in IJMES, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Theory and Criticism, Israeli Sociology, Megamot, Public Culture, Identities, World Development and contributions to numerous edited volumes including Islamic Masculinities, and Re-approaching the Border. He is author (with Haim Hazan) of Twilight Nationalism – a bilingual (Arabic-Hebrew) study of autobiographical narratives of Palestinian and Jewish elderly, and editor (with Dan Rabinowitz) of Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities (Ashgate Publishing, 2007).  

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.

Vlad Naumescu is teaching at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology since 2007. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on Greek Catholics in Ukraine and Romania and recently started fieldwork on St. Thomas Christianity in South India. His research focuses on religion, particularly Eastern Christianity, and cultural transmission, on which he published a monograph Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity: religious processes and social change in Ukraine (Lit 2007) and a coedited volume (with Stephanie Mahieu) Churches In-Between: Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe (Lit 2008).

Cynthia received the terminal degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she specialized in nonfiction writing. Her current writing and research interests include curriculum design, biographies of place, oral history as an agent of social change, teaching writing through local history, collective memory in individual & national identity development, and politics of knowledge in policy-making. Prior to joining CEU's faculty in 2009, Cynthia taught university writing at Columbia University.
 

Markian Prokopovych is an associate research fellow at Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies. His teaching and research focuses on cultural history of East Central Europe, and more broadly on urban history and modern European cultural history. He is a member of the International Committee for the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) and is involved in the editorial of several journals in the field.

Uwe Puetter is Professor at the Department of Public Policy. From 2006 to 2008 he served as the Department's first Head. Originally he had joined Central European University in September 2004 as an Assistant Professor of the newly created Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP). In the context of the degree programs of the Department Uwe Puetter is teaching courses on European integration, comparative politics and socio-economic governance.

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.

Currently, CEU Provost/Academic Pro-Rector, Howard Robinson is also Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He mainly specializes in metaphysics, including the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of mind: he also has an interest in the history of philosophy.

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.

Carsten Q. Schneider is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC). Prior to joining CEU in 2004, he obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on regime transitions, the consolidation and quality of democracies. He is also working in the field of comparative methodology, especially on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and its fuzzy set extension. Schneider is member of the Young Academy of Science in Germany and he will spend the Academic Year 2009-2010 as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

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.

Diane Stone was founding director of the CEU's Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP) in 2004 introducing 'global public policy' as a core theme.  From 2004 to 2008, she held a European Commission Framework 6 Award and was Marie Curie Chair in the Center for Policy Studies.  universities.

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).

 
 
 
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.

After simultaneously working as Strategist in an Investment Bank for 11 years, and Assistant Professor of Finance and Econometrics for 4 years in Turkey, he joined CEU Business School.
He was awarded Honorary Mention in an international research contest by Istanbul Stock Exchange in 2001, and prize for high-ranked international journal publication by the Turkey's Scientific Research Council in 2009.
He is a very active researcher on Financial Markets. He teaches International Finance, Capital Markets & Investments, Forecasting Financial Markets, Quantitative Methods and Business Economics at CEU Business School.

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.

Jean-Michel Viola received his PhD in Business Administration from HEC Montreal (Canada) after a MBA from UQAM (Canada) and a Bsc in Economics from Paris 2 University. Prior to joining CEU, he has worked for 8 years as a professor for HEC Montreal and Rennes School of Business in France and 3 years for JP Morgan bank in Paris. Since 1995, he has been involved in teaching management at all levels and has run various executive seminars in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. His research deals with the challenges associated with knowledge issues in the management of strategic alliances, the management of intellectual capital, business models in emerging industries, and the management of innovation and creation.

Ph.D. (Warwick University): Director of PhD program; environmental philosophy and political theory; academic writing for environmental sciences and policy.

Political, institutional and legal history of the Middle Ages, with a focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe;
the 'Byzantine Commonwealth'

László joined the RDSO in 2007, his main responsibility is the financial management of research and international academic cooperation projects. Before joining RDSO he had worked at the Budget and Finance Office of the CEU since 2000, in the capacity of financial officer responsible for liasing with bank contacts and handling various matters including payments and cash flow.
Qualified Accountant, Bank Administrator and Bank Clerk Certificate, Szent István School of Economics, Budapest, 1998

Felix Bubenheimer is Research Project Manager of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy. He is responsible for the smooth running of 3CSEP research projects, including administrative and financial project management, and acts as contact person for partners cooperating with the Center and entrusting 3CSEP with research projects.

Aleh Cherp has worked in CEU from 2000. His research interests include environmental assessment, strategic environmental assessment, sustainable development strategies, sustainability and transition to market economies, energy and environmental security. He is the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission and a Coordinating Lead Analyst (Energy Security) in the Global Energy Assessment.

I am the Project Officer of the Office of the Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs. The office as one of the core units of CEU's central administration has the privilege and the responsibility to take the leading role in liaisoning with European and Hungarian institutions, organisations including the Hungarian Ministry of Education, national authorities such as the Accreditation Board and respective educational authorities.

Corinne Freiburger joined the Department of Economics at the Central European University in 2008.

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.

Dealing with: admission, course registration, cross-listing, exchange and visiting programs, Justice Initiative fellows’ assistance, short term research grants, website maintenance, departmental publications.

Lilla Jakobs joined CEU in 1998 as the coordinator of the Department of Gender Studies, and has been affiliated with the Center for Policy Studies since 2004.

Brandon Krueger has worked for the past six years in the External Relations Office on web development, and previously print publications. He currently heads CEU's Online Communication Unit, and is a member of the CEU Web Team -- working on developing the university's pilot website on the Drupal content management system, as well as spearheading CEU's efforts on social media-based outreach.

Vanda joined ACRO as Research Grants Coordinator in November, 2007. She is the institutional OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) coordinator, responsible for grants offered by NKTH (National Office for Science and Technology) and other national funding agencies. She manages 7th Framework Program grants and the schemes of ERC (European Research Council) as well as applications for IVF (International Visegrad Fund), ESF (European Science Foundation) and other European programs of NGOs and private foundations.
Before coming to the CEU, she gained research management experience at Tempus Public Foundation having been responsible for writing and implementing FP6/FP7 and nationally funded projects.

Dr. Farhad Mukhtarov joined the Center for Environment and Security at Central European University in January 2010.
Dr. Mukhtarov has been recently awarded a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University. He holds a MSc degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy from the University of Manchester (Central European University), and a BSc from Azerbaijan State Economic University in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2007/2008 Dr. Mukhtarov was a Chevening Scholar at Oxford Centre for Water Research.
Dr. Mukhtarov worked as IWRM expert for UNESCO International Hydrological Programme, Paris; a visiting scholar at Oxford University Centre for the Environment; UNDP Researcher in Kazakhstan; and a teaching assistant at CEU. He conducted research on water governance in the UK, Norway, Hungary, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

Eszter Polgari is a Special Project Officer in the Legal Studies Department. Her main tasks are tutoring, OSJI Fellows' academic support, research assistance and research. She is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University. She is one of the national experts of the EU Fundamental Rights Ageny. She has participated in various projects monitoring the situation of human rights in Hungary. Her main areas of research are the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, particularly the role of the European consensus, constitutional law and LGBT rights. She is the editor of the human rights quarterly Fundamentum.

John Shattuck currently serves as CEU President and Rector. He comes to CEU after a distinguished career spanning more than three decades in higher education, international diplomacy, foreign policy and human rights.