CEU Faculty
Teaching at CEU takes place in an environment committed to academic excellence.
CEU’s international faculty come from over 30 countries. More than 130 permanent and 170 visiting professors and instructors ensure that students benefit from a rich diversity of ideas, expertise and teaching styles. In addition, many of CEU’s faculty were active in laying the foundations for the university’s own internationally-recognized Research Centers.
Below is the directory of selected CEU faculty. You can refine your search by using the options in the right column.
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Associate ProfessorAcademic Director of MBA ProgramsAssociate Professor of Management and International BusinessYusef 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. -
Assistant ProfessorEmel Akçali graduated in International Relations at both the American University (Paris, BA) and at the Université de Galatasaray (Istanbul, MA). She obtained her PhD in Political Geography at the Geography Institute of Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as an honorary research fellow and a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her research interests are the (trans-)formation of national identities in the age of globalisation, Political Islam, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, the development of non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and ethno-territorial conflicts and their resolution.
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Associate ProfessorDirector, Remote/Rural Communities & the EnvironmentPrior to joining CEU faculty, Brandon Anthony worked as advisor to the Hungarian Nature Conservation Institute, as a park supervisor/biologist with the Otonabee Regional Conservation Authority (Canada), and as an agricultural habitat biologist with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (Canada). He has conducted research on nature conservation and community livelihoods in Canada, South Africa, Malawi, Romania and Hungary.
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Associate ProfessorDirector, Center for Environment and SecurityDr. 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.
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Associate ProfessorAlexander 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.
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ProfessorDirector, Center for European Enlargement StudiesProf. Balázs graduated in Budapest at the Faculty of Economics of the “Karl Marx” University (later: Budapest School of Economics, today Corvinus University). He got his PhD degree and habilitated at the same University. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In parallel with his government and diplomatic career he has been teaching and doing research. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined the CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. He is regularly teaching at various home and foreign universities, lecturing in English, French, German and Hungarian.
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Associate ProfessorHead of MA in Law and Economics programAndrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and economics, institutional economics and microeconomic theory. His current research focuses on welfare level of the institutional harmonization, vagueness of law, and the relationship between social norms and law. Andrzej received his Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence in 1996. He also holds an M.A. from Central European University (1992). Before coming to CEU, he worked at the University of Liverpool, and in Wroclaw University of Economics.