Political Economy

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 Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Studies and 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.

Since January 2010 Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate (since 2005, Senior since 2007), Deputy Program Director "Migration" (since 2007), the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets (since 2006) 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). His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, and Migration. He has published in refereed journals, has a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue.

Magdalena is a PhD student at Political Science Department. She holds an MA degree in European Studies from Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity, Poland, and in Political Science from Central European University.
Magdalena's dissertation focuses on transnational cooperation between trade unions from Western and Central-Eastern Europe. Her other research interests include industrial relations in Europe, labor and postcommunist transition and political economy of EU's Eastern enlagrement.